Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 2 | In so doing he may come as near as he can ever hope to an understanding of war as people of the late Middle Ages knew it , no easy task even in the most favourable conditions , but one which can not be attempted with any hope of success without a proper appreciation of the many threads which make up history . |
| 3 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to tax people more rigorously , he should do so openly and not in the disguised form in which that is proposed . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ If the Scottish Secretary wishes to make a statement then he should do so openly and publicly and not allow his young office staff to brief members of the press off the record . |
| 5 | The causal sequence is unimportant , that is , whether the elation or depression came before or after the rise or fall , as the importance of the behaviour would be that ‘ he should stay down quietly and not try to make a comeback for some considerable time ’ ! |
| 6 | He told himself that he should go right now and plant the explosives to bring the tunnel down , but the Doctor 's curiosity was one of his strongest features . |
| 7 | He stood uncertainly , listening , wondering if he should go any further or retreat before someone came along . |
| 8 | Second , he should leave as quickly as is courteously possible . |
| 9 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 10 | ‘ My husband and I love Tobermory — well , we did before this afternoon — but now , of course , he must die as soon as possible . ’ |
| 11 | Once he is there he must find out exactly where ‘ there ’ is . |
| 12 | In whatever form the respondent 's case is pleaded he must prove not only that the appellants acted fraudulently but also that their fraud caused damage to him by causing the enactment of section 18 . |
| 13 | Once or twice a year he 'll go even further and invite a business writer to come and talk to his people . |
| 14 | He 'll go down there and fight the lot of them . |
| 15 | When Jess holds the ball , looking for men to beat , the truly hooked observer is caught in that exquisite dilemma of wishing he 'd get rid of it so as not to risk failure , while at the same time hoping he 'll carry on regardless and do something outrageous . |
| 16 | And he 's a sensible lad , with good prospects , he 'll do well enough when he 's finished studying at that university . |
| 17 | Perhaps he 'll come again tomorrow and then we could put a star for 3 , and the one who gets most stars , wins . ’ |
| 18 | he 'll come round sooner or later . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I supposed he 'll turn up sooner or later . |
| 20 | I 'm sure he 'll turn out better than the other one . |
| 21 | Channelling all the pain of her loss into arguments to support her theory , she leapt on to the promise of provision for her and the baby , and to the sentence , ‘ I 'm sure he 'll turn out better than the other one . ’ |
| 22 | he 'll join in then but he wants |
| 23 | He 's out at the moment but he 'll be in later and he 'll phone either tonight or in the morning . ’ |
| 24 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 25 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 26 | Sometimes he looked round the Park to see if he might move somewhere else but he did not like to start a flight with so many Men staring at him all at once . |
| 27 | He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken . |
| 28 | Tom looked as though he might stick around longer than all the girl graduates put together . |
| 29 | I 'm just afraid he might fall over again and hurt himself . ’ |
| 30 | Even in wellingtons , he could move as lightly as a squirrel . |