Example sentences of "what he [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theda took Hector to the kitchen and left him with Mrs Elswick to do what he might in the way of cajolery , for she had several morsels of interest to his ever ready stomach , and Theda was obviously not going to take him outside . |
| 2 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 3 | But Beethoven could take what he would from the past , and invent what he would . |
| 4 | ‘ It is , of course , precisely what he ought to be seeing , ’ he agreed , reluctantly . |
| 5 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 6 | He 's very uncooperative and aggressive , not at all like what he used to be … oh yes , it is a strain . ’ |
| 7 | WHERE was the judgment in paying Derby a record £5.1 million for Dean Saunders and Mark Wright only to discover that Saunders does n't fit with Ian Rush and Wright is n't quite what he used to be ? |
| 8 | He was then faced with the choice of either being kept on doing only half that of what he used to , or starting on his own . |
| 9 | there 's there 's and we just , what he must of had and he skidded and there was a blooming long track of mud down the carpet you know ! |
| 10 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 11 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 12 | We hammered on the door for the gaoler and returned to the main gates of the prison where Benjamin left a coin and instructed the sadistic bastard to do what he could for poor Taplow . |
| 13 | A few would talk and from them he learned what he could of the north-west . |
| 14 | The distinguished personage known as the Coroner 's Serjeant ( with a ‘ j ’ ) had been willing to sacrifice what he could of his time if the interests of Justice ( capital ‘ J ’ ) were really being served . |
| 15 | Lucas knew Lord Halifax from his university days and now wrote to tell him that Ramsey was the man whom the diocese wanted as its bishop , and hoped that Halifax would do what he could with Winston Churchill . |
| 16 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 17 | Leaving Paddy Mayne to bring up what he could in the way of supplies from Kabrit , Stirling set off from Siwa to Eighth Army Headquarters , which he found in turmoil . |
| 18 | When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry . |
| 19 | At the end of the negotiations , as he prepared to run off to salvage what he could from the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Nicaragua , North told the Iranians he had failed in his mission ‘ to start the process of healing between our countries ’ ; the two nations , Iran and America , were about to pass each other like ships in the night . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , he asked Ranulf to learn what he could from his new-found paramour though , privately , he believed nothing would come of that . |
| 21 | Bright enough to draw what he could from his NME days and survive outside , he 's carved a unique niche for himself . |
| 22 | But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory . |
| 23 | These are portraits of the artist who grows up in an age of revolutionary socialism and who has to make what he can of it . |
| 24 | The reader must make what he can of it . |
| 25 | Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship . |
| 26 | And then , I mean , but every one of us had a letter off him and said he was , he was doing what he can with the council |
| 27 | The physiotherapist is motivator and facilitator , inspiring and encouraging the patient to do what he can at every stage . |
| 28 | He wants to learn what he can from my failure . ’ |
| 29 | Whereas in the classic Italian historical novel , Manzoni 's The Betrothed ( 1827 ) , much admired by Eco , the omniscience of the author consists in his ability to probe at will into the psychology of his characters and , at the same time , to link this to broad historical movements and even some sense of a providential ‘ plot ’ in history , in Eco it is closer to the power of the master craftsman who can make what he will with the materials to hand , and unmake it too . |