Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A desperate prisoner , knowing perfectly well what is expected of him may well offer to a chaplain or prison visitor any amount of repentance ; he might even undertake a religious conversion . |
| 2 | Then I 'm off to see Alexander O'Neal — people like him would never travel to Australia . |
| 3 | He ought therefore to disappear at the first opportunity , especially since the purpose of his stay , that of meeting Katja Müller , appeared to have lost its point … |
| 4 | He may presumably take into account his previous experience of the particular applicants , if they have organised marches in the past . |
| 5 | If the shaman is exposed to the insidious effects of the fungus for too long he may eventually turn into a giant shaman mushroom . |
| 6 | He may again head to South Africa in pursuit of his cricketing career . |
| 7 | He may legitimately expect from his field officer detailed knowledge of and familiarity with any discharger or any ‘ problems ’ . |
| 8 | He may also appear in the guise of a small grey water-horse or a lamb , always with an unusually long tail . |
| 9 | He may also act on the principle that ‘ things have always been done this way ’ and justify his actions accordingly . |
| 10 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 11 | The Advocate Depute may or may not accept this ; he may well consult with the senior police officer in the case , the injured party if there as a witness , or in very serious cases , with the Crown office in Edinburgh . |
| 12 | But the judge added : ‘ The time has come when Mr Davies has to realise that if the caravans are not removed from the site he may well go to prison , because he will be in contempt of the court order . ’ |
| 13 | He may well go into shock and take a few months to accept the inevitability of family life . |
| 14 | Or , consider the case of a comedian telling a joke about a Scotsman , an Irishman and an Englishman — he may well rely on mimicked features of accent to track which protagonist is talking . |
| 15 | As SEC chairman , he may well prove to be a champion not just of small companies but also of order-driven auction markets like his former employer and the New York Stock Exchange . |
| 16 | Usually , his penis is then packed in ice — and he may well have to be taken to the operating theatre to have the blood clot removed from inside it . |
| 17 | He may well ask for space for himself , but always space in relation to another . |
| 18 | Presumably all that is behind him now , though he may well remember during his tenure that some of the great literary masterpieces started life on toilet paper . |
| 19 | If the speaker is observing the maxims in a fairly direct way , he may nevertheless rely on the addressee to amplify what he says by some straightforward inferences based on the assumption that the speaker is following the maxims . |
| 20 | He may longer sting like a bee but Ali 's still as light on his feet as a butterfly … and the memories are going strong . |
| 21 | While on his own home ground he knows how to do things , or how to get them done , beyond the boundaries of his home ground he knows , at best , only that he should comply with the rules without necessarily understanding why or precisely what all of the relevant rules are : he may simply go through the motions . |
| 22 | If a creditor is owed a debt not payable at the date of the bankruptcy order , he may nonetheless prove for the same ( r 6.114 ) but subject to an adjustment of his dividend where payment of dividend is made before the time when the debt would have become payable . |
| 23 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 24 | Platt was left out of Juventus 's opening match last Sunday and has been told he may only play in Juventus ' home game . |
| 25 | This is particularly clear in the handwritten attempts of very young children where the adult is obliged to assign each large painstakingly formed letter token to a particular type of letter , which he may then re-interpret in the light of the larger message . |
| 26 | Restrained as he may now appear to be , his precariously balanced control might well snap as his passion mounted . |
| 27 | He may perhaps speculate with me on whether the widely reported drop in standards of literacy among children of school-leaving age can in any way be connected with the massive dispersals and changes which have taken place in these educational libraries . |
| 28 | It was obviously vital that he should somehow get into Vic 's shed unseen . |
| 29 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 30 | I wrote to Mr Baker to propose that he should tactfully suggest to Mr Dahl that , as he was not attending the Working Group 's meeting , he should resign . |