Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worry about my daughter , she 's growing up in a world where things are inevitably going ’ Asked whether he may just possibly have got it all wrong , Hopkins pauses melodramatically . |
| 2 | It is not unusual for a new Member to be welcomed , despite the fact that he may not yet have contributed to our proceedings . |
| 3 | The worst mistake is to leave clothes near the patient when he is unattended : he may fall over if he tries to put them on by himself , as he may not yet have realized that he can not balance and move normally . |
| 4 | He may not even have thought consciously of Palestine two thousand years ago as a very real place , precisely situated in space and time , subject to a confused welter of social , psychological , political , economic and religious factors — the same factors that operate in any ‘ real ’ locality , past or present . |
| 5 | He may simply not have had enough money to take on the extra land and the work as required for it . |
| 6 | He may very well have changed his mind . |
| 7 | Of course , it was a shame about that incident when she assaulted the headmaster , but he should n't really have laughed at her for being the only child there who does n't take drugs . |
| 8 | I should never have looked and he should never really have said just look at that , oh aye ! |
| 9 | Tim , Tim , Tim he 'll probably just wants to go to the toilet soon you will tell grandma wo n't you ? |
| 10 | he 'll very soon return to lair |
| 11 | He found time too to father an illegitimate child , shortly afterwards abandoning both child and mistress for the woman he might well eventually have married , Margot Heinemann . |
| 12 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 13 | Importantly , too , the use of a high style allowed Milton a voice he might not otherwise have achieved during the Restoration . |
| 14 | The acquisition of wrappers by him was , at least in many cases , of direct benefit to the Nestle Co. , and required expenditure by the acquirer which he might not otherwise have incurred . |
| 15 | Bobby Hunt was one who accompanied Minton on his weekly tour of the galleries and who found himself reading books he might not otherwise have read . |
| 16 | ‘ He might not even have touched her . |
| 17 | ‘ If it was Alain — and it almost certainly was — then he might not even have heard , let alone taken any notice . |
| 18 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 19 | He said they were so shocking he could n't even bear to repeat them . ’ |
| 20 | The title of Nigel Osborne 's serenade , Albanian Nights , while moist obviously referring to the disguises assumed by Ferrando and Guglielmo while testing their fiancées ' fidelity in Così fan tutte , is also a metaphorical allusion to our own relationship to the music of the past : ‘ We 've got to recognize that we come into Mozart 's world like characters in disguise : we 've all flown in airplanes , driven fast cars , eaten junk food — things he could n't even have imagined . |
| 21 | We 've all flown in aeroplanes , driven fast cars , eaten junk food — things he could n't even have imagined ’ . |
| 22 | But as she came forward he faltered , and his certainty died ; it was her , but it was n't , in a way that he could n't even have begun to explain . |
| 23 | Were it not for the fact that he and Cora-Beth were to continue living here at Blue Ash Farm with her father , he could n't even have afforded to get married . |
| 24 | It was this , or lose her completely with certainty and forever — a prospect that he could n't even begin to face . |
| 25 | He could n't even begin to untangle the sensations buffeting both mind and body . |
| 26 | Her eyes were wide open , but they stared straight ahead , gazing in anguish at sights he could n't even begin to imagine . |
| 27 | He could n't ever have met him or else he 'd have recognised the calibre of the victim he had selected . |
| 28 | He began by saying that with the UK vehicle division 's track record over recent years , he could n't really expect to receive any support to the plan he was about to describe . |
| 29 | Oh , yes , she recognised the sexual awareness that was an integral part of his attitude towards her , and it made her uneasy , but he could n't really mean to do anything about it when he despised her so intensely . |
| 30 | He could n't really have loved her , Rachel , if he could n't face what happened to her — and him a doctor as well ! ’ |