Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he gets his way in a new ‘ voluntary agreement ’ ( which is likely once the industry gets over its panic on finding a Minister for Health rather than a Minister for Tobacco in the DoH ) he may feel bound to reject the ban . |
| 2 | Men may , for example , both see themselves as ‘ stronger ’ than women and tend to see women as more weak and passive , but also see women as having a power over them that can seem to engulf the man in forms of emotional dependence by which he may feel threatened . |
| 3 | He may have owed his entry into royal service to Robert de Tibetot ( or Tiptoft ) [ q.v. ] , whom he represented when Robert went on crusade with the future Edward I in 1270 . |
| 4 | Even so , that he was able to expel the powerful figure to whom he may have owed much of his victory in 1016 must say something about the effectiveness of the power base which he had succeeded in creating in England in the intervening years . |
| 5 | He may have said cousin . ’ |
| 6 | He may have said , ‘ Kismet ’ . ' |
| 7 | He may have said , ‘ See you ’ , or ‘ See you again ’ , something general . ’ |
| 8 | France was a side torn apart between Trillo 's desire to make risk a factor in the gameplan and Dubroca who , as the spiritual heir to Fouroux , had favoured the safety-first approach , no matter what he may have said in public . |
| 9 | He may have said that there will be no increase in German rates before Maastricht — indeed , hopefully , so long as the treaty is signed , not before our general election . |
| 10 | He may have made his name with a story from British history , but that was simply calculated opportunism as he showed by following with similar , though less amusing and successful , treatments of the lives of Catherine the Great ( 1934 ) and Rembrandt ( 1936 ) . |
| 11 | He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman . |
| 12 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 13 | " He may have made it , but Fiver thought of it for us , " answered Hazel . |
| 14 | Discreet enquiries about his affairs , particularly any will he may have made or altered . |
| 15 | He may have received psychotherapy , but has not yet undergone conversion surgery even if he is contemplating it . |
| 16 | By the late 1930s any money he may have received from his father had come to an end . |
| 17 | Gundobad fled to Avignon , where he may have received Visigothic support . |
| 18 | Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received . |
| 19 | He may have survived if only he could have found it . |
| 20 | Then he may have survived . |
| 21 | He may have inherited some of his eccentricity from his father , Bernard , who built up a vast multi-national engineering company from scratch and then acquired a circus as a sideline , training his own Lippizaner stallions . |
| 22 | It is possible he may have observed something you were not in a position to see , ’ Rose explained diplomatically . |
| 23 | Indeed , as C. S. L. Davies has suggested , the arrogance with which he treated his fellow-councillors in the two years before his fall in October 1549 may owe a lot to his outstanding success at Pinkie , when he may have believed that he was about to achieve what some of the greatest of English kings had failed to do . |
| 24 | He may have believed , and was encouraged to think , that the Communist party would win the coming election in France and form , or at least be made part of , a new government ; and the Russian advice seems to have been to hold on and to wait for ‘ democratic France ’ and its ‘ progressive forces ’ to support the cause of colonial liberation . |
| 25 | Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return . |
| 26 | It looks like he may have travelled under an assumed name , God knows why . ’ |
| 27 | From Oxford he may have travelled into the south-west . |
| 28 | At least , he may have begun in a monastery , but in the event he took orders and was for years a junior pastor somewhere in Worcestershire . |
| 29 | He knew that he was accused of indecisiveness and vacillation ( that is what Hamlet means to Italians ) and seems to have felt he may have broken his lance on windmills ( that is what Don Quixote means ) . |
| 30 | One of the engineers has fallen , and it sounds as if he may have broken his leg . |