Example sentences of "[prep] he [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sentences 3 and 4 , the reference value of he may be either the president or some other male person . |
| 2 | Oh but I need you to tell him because of he 'll , he 'll wan na he 'll wan na talk to me . |
| 3 | Our friends from Harvard might reply that there is still nothing sexist about the convention , and the triumph of he might even reflect its ‘ naturalness ’ for the function the prescriptivists laid down for it . |
| 4 | ‘ It began with striking his spurs off for disobedience , but ended more on the lines of he could stay and rot for two weeks for all Zacco cared . |
| 5 | It remains to consider whether the routine collection of data to permit component forecasts of HE could be justified . |
| 6 | He suggested that Brzezinski should " get stuffed " and then asked of he could translate this into Polish . |
| 7 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 8 | If a man is worth protesting against he must be somebody . |
| 9 | No no he came from he would have come from Kirkwall . |
| 10 | If Mr Lamont was expecting them to unite behind a common policy he will be disappointed but if he wanted a variety of views to choose from he will be pleased by the range of forecasts and advice in their preliminary report . |
| 11 | If Mr Lamont was expecting them to unite behind a policy he will be disappointed but if he wanted a variety of views to choose from he will be pleased by the range of forecasts and advice in their preliminary report . |
| 12 | Beyond this point he would observe something very strange : the area of the spherical surface would decrease , until when he had travelled twice as far to he would find that it had shrunk to nothing . |
| 13 | If you asked them to he would do it . |
| 14 | I think he 'd want to have some kind of little business going where if he wants to he can go off And then he can go off and pick it up and |
| 15 | If you are thinking about it talking person to person remember the guy on the building site remember the woman who 's pregnant and trying to sell insurance and getting him to he should have been securing his family welfare and so on . |
| 16 | He used to he used to run his own ship , er a little coastal a little coastal er er vessel . |
| 17 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 18 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 19 | She knew that if he wanted to he could have killed her ; without apparent effort he held off her attack once the first shock had past . |
| 20 | And er in , within that as you know you can actually er go for er the higher income if he wanted to he could push the income up on the hundred thousand say , we could make the income round about seven percent if we wanted to do . |
| 21 | He has the nonchalance of a guy it never occurs to he could get bust on the nose . |
| 22 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 23 | From this point on he would aim his life in a new direction . |
| 24 | Their eyes met and in the distance a romantic gypsy began playing — Ned knew that from that moment on he could n't live without her ! |
| 25 | Yes , I was talking about he used to come over here a lot . |
| 26 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 27 | He has a tutor , a retired teacher who visits the house for mathematics and is following a traditional and largely irrelevant course in it ( such as he might be following at school ) and he is learning quite sufficient about mathematics in context apart from that ( shades of Cockcroft ! ) |
| 28 | Ordered , That the Votes and Proceedings of this House be printed , being first perused by Mr. Speaker ; and that he do appoint the printing thereof ; and that no person but such as he shall appoint do presume to print the same . |
| 29 | This is very astute criticism of Yeats : but more to the point is that Pound here confesses self-doubts such as he would have concealed from anyone he did not trust absolutely . |
| 30 | Why the horror , why the compulsive fascination , by what despairing route had this new and unexpected compulsion carried him through semi-tropical plants in a glass lift to an afternoon such as he would sworn never to attend — he did not know . |