Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have survived if only he could have found it . |
| 2 | He should have remembered because always walks down there on Fridays to do his badminton class . |
| 3 | This word ‘ gently ’ enhances the tenderness of the lines , while ‘ fields unsown ’ tells us that the man had to go and work in the fields , suggesting a strength and a vigour which he must have had and thereby making his death harder to accept . |
| 4 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
| 5 | He might have known that even someone as sensible as Miss van Wiliamsburgh would try to make a play of this sort . |
| 6 | Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more . |
| 7 | He fantasized about all the ones he could have had if only he 'd been sure that a gnarled form in holey sweaters would n't join them at 1 a.m . |
| 8 | He would love to walk as well . |
| 9 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 10 | ‘ Only Keith knows whether he will continue to succeed and never fall back . |
| 11 | If not , he will have to buy or otherwise get sight of copies of past examination papers . |