Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For the purpose of seeing whether his suspicions are well-founded , he may … stop any person carrying goods which he suspects to have been stolen , he may also examine the person and detain him .
2 If an individual appears unable to pay his debts or has no reasonable prospect of paying he may also face a bankruptcy petition .
3 He may also face the prospect of long-term hardship , if he can not return to work at all .
4 He may also have a contact man in each functional department responsible for co-ordination and monitoring of the work within the department .
5 He may well feel the need to scare me off .
6 He may well have a point .
7 Gooch has been known to carry a long face on his sleeve and he may well appreciate the strength of Gatting .
8 How that might change his nature , there 's the question ’ mean that he is determined to become emperor , and if he did , he may well become a tyrant and abuse his power , although he seems very noble at the moment .
9 He may well cause a bit more trouble yet .
10 He may even have a right to have it .
11 He may even have the town named after him .
12 He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him .
13 Should the wielder attack and fail to score a hit , he may immediately re-roll the attack again , giving him a second chance to hit .
14 Heseltine may not prove as co-operative as his DTI forebears and , while he may not earn the adulation of predators such as Hanson , he will increasingly enjoy the appreciation of potential targets , such as ICI , Trafalgar House and Vickers .
15 Garrison Savannah who almost won the National two years ago appears to have returned to his old form if you take his Gold Cup run on board for he was always in touch before blundering and losing his chance late in the race , but he may not stay the trip as happened two years ago when he was beaten by Seagram .
16 But if he decides to go the Hollywood route , he may not have a choice .
17 But he may not have a home to go back to .
18 But he may not have the power to overrule the precedents ; in any case , reasons of strategy argue against this .
19 Someone other than the trustee or his nominee may be elected chairman , but if the trustee is the chairman , he may not adjourn the meeting without the consent of at least half , in value , of those present ( in person or by proxy ) and entitled vote ( r 6.129(3) ) .
20 Next year he may not get a drive at all .
21 Then er even one percent of nuclear weaponry that er could be used is a danger to world congregation and I fear very much er that unless there is some kind of a proper cast iron guarantee er with the successor to the Soviet Union er there 's going to be much er trouble especially if er there is an ethnic violence er erupting on the borders and again er Boris Yeltsin has said that er , er he is going to want to control er the position on the borders , well he may not get the agreement that he seeks , er one hopes that he will , but he , he may not .
22 He may not know a word of Burmese but he will share a fag with the interested Burman who is watching all that is going on , and as they puff away together contentedly , something intangible will pass from the one to the other .
23 He may not ride a Monster .
24 However , since he may not release a prisoner unless and until he is recommended to do so by the Parole Board , the stage in an individual prisoner 's sentence at which the board considers whether to make a recommendation for his release is therefore very important .
25 He may not take the law into his own hands .
26 Although the buyer can not complain under section 15(2) ( c ) of defects which he could reasonably have discovered on an examination of the sample , he may nevertheless have an action under section 14(2) or ( 3 ) above .
27 He may simply assist a competitor in any way which does or may have an adverse and material effect on his employer 's business .
28 If the seller can not maintain an action under section 49 , he may still have a claim for damages which he can bring under section 50 ‘ where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods . ’
29 He may never appreciate the VIP treatment he is getting .
30 This is better for the male , too , and he may actually inform the female in some way that she is a secondary female , but as yet we do not know how .
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