Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [verb] the [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 | He may also face the prospect of long-term hardship , if he can not return to work at all . |
| 3 | ‘ He may well feel the need to scare me off . |
| 4 | Gooch has been known to carry a long face on his sleeve and he may well appreciate the strength of Gatting . |
| 5 | He may even have the town named after him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He may never appreciate the VIP treatment he is getting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the same way he may only despatch the liquor to the customer outwith permitted hours . |
| 11 | The child knows that he may only win the object or activity back by compliance . |
| 12 | Thus Vaughan is assuming a certain amount of shared knowledge on the part of the reader ; but because we can not , naturally , see things from the perspective of his origo , he must also assist the reader in the assignment of indexical or deictic meanings . |
| 13 | Someone might say : it is a principle of personal morality that if someone shares in the gains of another 's action he must also share the responsibility for wrongs that other person does . |
| 14 | Assuming that a president can overcome these difficulties sufficiently to establish some discipline within the executive branch , he must also obtain the agreement of congress to his legislative proposals . |
| 15 | ‘ A challenge ? ’ she husked painfully , her eyes so wide she thought he must surely read the anguish in them . |
| 16 | Even if A has the power of arrest , he must ordinarily inform the person arrested that he is being arrested and the reason for it , i. e. the act for which arrest is made : Christie v. Leachinsky [ facts ] . |
| 17 | For an object to appear to be φ to someone , in the epistemic sense of ‘ appear ’ , he must already have the concept φ . |
| 18 | Having decided he must again race the tide , he began a desperate cumbersome run along the edge of the trough towards the breakwater . |
| 19 | Yet he must somehow tear the pain out with his hands or he knew that it would kill him . |
| 20 | Anselm acquiesced in this explanation and waited for peace , but then , long after it had been apparent to others , it dawned on him that he must either do the job or give it up — preferably , so far as he was concerned , the latter . |
| 21 | He must either barge the door down or make one more supreme effort to leave the way he had come in . |
| 22 | Duke William , essentially a warrior of the European mainland , found himself in a quandary : he must either renounce the claim or mount a once-for-all amphibious operation which would stretch his resources to the absolute limits . |
| 23 | He must either deny the fact of the conviction or admit it , and , if he wants to , allege that it was erroneous or irrelevant . |
| 24 | Erm now I I do n't think anybody 's suggesting that in er the Greater York new settlement we would be likely to achieve a large shopping mall anchored at both ends , one by Marks and Spencers er and the other by Fenwicks , or or or any o or bins or any other department store , so he must really understand the process and really what we talking about er er in North Yorkshire . |
| 25 | That is yet another case of the hon. Gentleman not being able to make up his mind about his policies and he must therefore reserve the right to do precisely what is Government policy . |
| 26 | But he must never guess the truth . |
| 27 | And for that he 'll even supply the salad bowl . |
| 28 | If we blow Sorley he 'll just sell the van and do a runner . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't worry , if I want him to shut up I 'll give him a dig and he 'll soon get the message ! |
| 30 | so Richard he could n't , he 'll probably buy the Pioneer speakers |