Example sentences of "that he [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finally , brethren , let us ask the Almighty to look down upon us and our endeavours with His special favour , beseeching Him that He may send a blessing upon our daily tasks , and that in His infinite wisdom He may smite our enemies , and destroy those who would destroy us . |
| 2 | Peter 's General Practitioner had discussed the possibility that he may have a peptic ulcer ( erosion of the lining of the stomach or duodenum ) which may be associated with irregular meals , high alcohol consumption and heavy smoking . |
| 3 | He knew that he ought to see a physician , but was unwilling to do so lest he be told that he was not , after all , cured of syphilis . |
| 4 | After the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943 he privately reckoned the chances of a similar German collapse at six to four against ; and he recognised , partly under pressure from Attlee and others on the Labour side , that he ought to appoint a senior Minister to co-ordinate the planning of reconstruction . |
| 5 | ‘ It is the people hereabouts that I like , ’ said Mr Crump , feeling the silence as censure and well aware that he ought to play a proper part in the conversation . |
| 6 | An obscure feeling that he ought to have a key to this house made him resentful . |
| 7 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 8 | Yeah erm the amount of police necessary for each area is based on all sorts of statistics , and for the statis statistics that we have for this area , we have or the chief constable 's decided that he 'll allocate a hundred and two police officers to police this area , which we find adequate . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , ’ Kirov snapped , vaguely resenting the implication that he might make a purely social call upon the photographer . |
| 10 | Aggers ' biggest worry was that he might make a fool of himself bowling at Gooch after being out of the game for two years . |
| 11 | Jackie goes upstairs to phone her husband at work , so that he might make a trip to the shops before visiting hour . |
| 12 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 13 | For Law , the issue was that many Unionists would in any case feel compelled to support Lloyd George and that he might command a large personal following in the constituencies ; it would be useful to capture him as Joseph Chamberlain had been captured in 1886 . |
| 14 | Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges . |
| 15 | MOREOVER , individual examples of bias , such as the one I detected when Paddy Ashdown was allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that he might do a deal with John Major just as easily as with Neil Kinnock , need to be balanced against the election coverage as a whole . |
| 16 | President Gorbachev 's special envoy Yevgeny Primakov visited Iraq twice in October , but suggestions that he might elicit a change in the Iraqi stance proved unfounded . |
| 17 | On 10 May 1794 , Huntingford wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons ( who had himself been elected a vice-president of the College ) as follows : ‘ Honble Sir , I should not have taken the liberty of troubling you on the subject of the Veterinary College did not the recent business of Wm Stone who stands charged with High Treason prove the cause of his exerting himself to my prejudice in favor of M Vial the late Professor , to be that he might establish a French Connection in that Institution in order that he might through the channel carry on his correspondence with the enemy . |
| 18 | ‘ But now I am concerned that he might have a different response this year ! ’ |
| 19 | There 's a chance that he might have a moderately common anatomical abnormality of the penis ( present in about one man in 200 ) which makes it difficult to avoid peeing on the floor . |
| 20 | He is a natural actor and I thought that he might have a part in the play . |
| 21 | Macaulay was attributing rather too much blame to Frederick II of Prussia when he wrote ‘ in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend , black men fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America . ’ |
| 22 | As his series of meetings progressed , some at Chartwell , some in London , there was even fear on the part of Jones and Davidson that he might get a settlement in the absence of the Prime Minister and thus damage Baldwin 's position . |
| 23 | On the other hand , there is a fair chance that he might find a magic potion which will restore him to full strength and heal his wounds . |
| 24 | Emerging in his mind was the thought that he might become a writer . |
| 25 | He finds his run unenjoyable and frustrating , not to mention worrying because of the increasing risk that he might receive a knee injury , or worse . |
| 26 | It was possible for a person to be given a legacy on the understanding that he would manumit a slave . |
| 27 | I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood . |
| 28 | Lightheartedly , the Earl agreed and said that he would hold a Tournament . |
| 29 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 30 | Arran announced that he would prefer a Bill of this nature to be introduced in the Commons , but that he would keep his Bill going in the Lords until an MP could be found to sponsor an equivalent measure in the other House . |