Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual pattern was for all to congregate in Minton 's studio where he might cook a large risotto after which they went to a film . |
| 2 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 3 | ‘ Now , any idea where he might go ? ’ |
| 4 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 5 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 6 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |
| 7 | ‘ D' you have any idea where he might have gone ? ’ |
| 8 | Now : do you have any idea where he might have gone ? ’ |
| 9 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 10 | Several years before the thought came to His Majesty 's omniscient mind that he should select some pleasant sight on the banks of the River Jumna … where he might found a splendid and delightful edifice . |
| 11 | I also suggested that he go and live in San Francisco for six months , where he might see for himself and in practice the ideal which Jesus Christ was talking about , which is far removed from anything the Church of England ever practises in this country . |
| 12 | He 's been taken to Pentonville Prison where he 'll serve four months . |
| 13 | I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat , and runs away with it to a corner , where he may devour it in peace , without any fear of others taking it from him . ’ |
| 14 | When John Nobles , a kersey clothier in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton , made his will in 1715 he directed his supervisors to ‘ chuse such a master for my son where he may learn both the clothier trade and husbandry ’ when he reached the age of 14 . |
| 15 | Commissioned in the 4th Regiment of Foot , he fought at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 and then served in the Netherlands , where he may have gained experience of hydraulic engineering . |
| 16 | Among the property Margaret inherited was ‘ the house with the ways , walks , etc. ’ in the parish of St Andrew 's , Holborn , which Berthelet had reserved to his own use , and where he may have lived during his retirement . |
| 17 | He mentions a café where he would eat once a day . |
| 18 | However , a move to Besiktas , where he would earn big money , would prolong his Liverpool connection , for they are coached by ex-Reds midfielder Gordon Milne , who has been highly successful since joining the club . |
| 19 | After lunch he returned to his office where he would continue with his ordinary duties until the ritual of tea at four , when he would receive visitors . |
| 20 | Passing Scalpay , Johnson suggested to Boswell that they buy the island , ‘ found a good school ’ on it , and an episcopal church , ‘ and have a printing-press where he would print all the Erse that could be found ’ . |
| 21 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 22 | This monologue went on throughout dinner , after which he insisted that we all went across the road to the village hall where he would show us his slides of the Lake District . |
| 23 | He taught her history : the story of Pelopidas and Epaminondas ; he taught her geography , taking a shovel and pail of water into the garden , where he would build for her instructive peninsulas , islands , gulfs and promontories . |
| 24 | Domestic policy he tended , with a few exceptions such as social security ( where he would reprise his old refrain about the law of averages coming to the rescue of the millions ) , to regard largely as a matter of ‘ drains ’ . |
| 25 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 26 | He would lash out at her and afterwards hide himself away in some shady corner where he would sit , his head lowered to his knees , engulfed in a dangerous brooding mood that lingered until the day 's end . |
| 27 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 28 | Like other children , I watched him propel his chair up the chapel path , where he would wait in the porch till the beginning of the first hymn , then come just inside the door for the service . |
| 29 | He would pause only to take a meal in the dining-room , where he would sell his pens to visiting salesmen . |
| 30 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |