Example sentences of "[subord] he [modal v] [to-vb] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll be creeping about in the half-dark wondering if he ought to burn his suit , scraping the mud off his shoes . |
| 2 | Eubank would fight every week if he could to make his fortune secure as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Frontman Hilda — so called because he used to put his hair in rollers — says influences are as diverse as Motley Crew , Van Halen , Thin Lizzy , even the Monkees . |
| 4 | Money was the issue , because he used to spend his money on hobbies and I 'd never know what I 'd be getting from week to week and some weeks I 'd not get anything . |
| 5 | But then why , as he lay there pink and rested in his striped Viyella pyjamas feeling no older and certainly very little wiser than he had when he used to open his eyes in his prep school dormitory over sixty-five years ago , should he not be alive and kicking ? |
| 6 | When he used to chase his tail and I remember I was walking I was walking round the shops with him and there 's this big alsatian and Roly was giving it cos you know how scared he was of dogs it was barking at him ! |
| 7 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |