Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.

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31 He may recall that in Germany more than 3 million people are unemployed and he may bear it in mind that a higher proportion of people are in work in this country than in Germany or in any other European country except Denmark .
32 Finally , we open mind and heart , so that He may shed his light on our path , and tell us anything that He wants us to do .
33 The trustee is to chair meetings of the committee , but he may nominate someone else to stand in for him and that person must either be an employee of his experienced in insolvency matters or another qualified insolvency practitioner ( r 6.154 ) .
34 ‘ No one can enter a strong man 's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man ; then indeed he may plunder his house . ’
35 I realise that , if someone is driving a car , and sitting behind him is a lady with a handbag and a man with fangs , he may feel it wiser to drive in the slow lane .
36 He may feel he 's in a British Rail nightmare : he will get to his destination some time or other but he 's deeply unhappy about his discomfort while travelling .
37 The individual who is determined to remain calm in the face of aggression , even though he may feel he is doing the right thing , might wonder whether others look down on him and be tempted to behave as others think he should .
38 We must be satisfied that the insured person is legally liable and not just morally liable , i.e. he may feel he is responsible for some damage but unless he has been negligent then no liability exists .
39 He may feel he can get 2 or 3 lucrative moves over a 10 year period .
40 See your doctor if spots are severe and he may send you to a dermatologist .
41 He may prefer his own assessment of the patient 's interests , and ignore that of the parent or guardian .
42 He may beat her — ’
43 ‘ … entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar , that he may give me the cave of Machpelah , which he owns ; it is at the end of his field .
44 And he turned toward the East and knelt and said , Holy Mary Mother , and all Saints , pray to God for me , that he may give me strength to destroy all the Pagans , and to win enough from them to requite my friends therewith , and all those who follow and help me .
45 He may give me till tea-time .
46 ‘ Hopefully he may give us the help we are looking for . ’
47 If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ?
48 He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still …
49 A worker may be required to live in tied accommodation as a condition of employment or he may make his own decision to do so .
50 He may consolidate his position by entering into a merger of sorts with Carlton when the Government permits such tie-ups in 1994 .
51 ‘ Where an unpaid seller has made part delivery of the goods , he may exercise his lien or right of retention on the remainder , unless such part delivery has been made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to waive the lien or right of retention . ’
52 Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’
53 He may do it by actually ‘ clobbering ’ somebody , but this would imply a rather drastic escalation of the conflict situation and happens too rarely for everyone in the aggro-leader role to prove themselves .
54 He stands up with the assistance of the therapist : he may do his trousers up while the therapist makes sure he remains properly aligned and upright , or the therapist may fasten the trousers while the patient concentrates on standing and balancing .
55 This is caused by : homogeneity of task , ie lack of variety emotions caused by frustration or discouragement a rate of learning which is too fast or too slow Fatigue may reduce the effort the student is putting into learning or he may fix his attention on particular elements of the work to be learned rather than on the work as a whole .
56 He may regard them as curious examples of another civilization or occasionally view with incredulity the ways of city people and industrial workers , but he will only regard them with envy when television reinforces the evaluations already implanted personally by friends and kin with whom he identifies .
57 He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist .
58 Any gynaecological illness , even a Caesarian operation , and he may regard her as unfit for sex and therefore useless : and he will go back to Bangladesh and marry again .
59 He may take me tonight and then reject me tomorrow .
60 But there is a compulsion to adopt one or the other , and whichever course he may take he can not obtain possession of his goods without handing over to the collector either absolutely or conditionally the amount claimed as duty .
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