Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ The good news is that he may not do you any positive harm . |
| 2 | Counsel may ‘ submit ’ and ‘ suggest ’ as strongly as he likes , and he may state propositions of law and fact , but he should not express his own belief or opinion . |
| 3 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 4 | Judge Wroath was fully aware that he must not apply his own decision as to what D 's welfare required . |
| 5 | There was , however , no apparent motive , McLeish reminded himself , and he must not let his own uneasy conviction that Angela Morgan would have been more than capable of stirring up strong and complex emotions in those around her cloud his judgement . |
| 6 | and it jerked me , but she said it 's a muscle been pulled and it 's , it keeps spasm so she said er , could of been nasty , said I dare n't tell him , cos I says if I tell him it was his fault , I says he 'll never give me another ride , it 's again Thursday night coming back , and his car , you know the car kept , bump , bump , bump , bump , bump |
| 7 | And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more . |
| 8 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 9 | Morrissey 's retreat was probably due to a realisation that he could n't control his own public persona . |
| 10 | No , he could n't confront his own son . |
| 11 | ‘ Willoughby tried , but he could n't do anything much , ’ Jo-Ann said . |
| 12 | ‘ He could n't do it any more . ’ |
| 13 | Philip waited till he could n't see him any more , then went back to his hide . |
| 14 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
| 15 | He could n't take it any more . |
| 16 | He could n't take it any more . |
| 17 | In fact he could n't get them all in , and he acquired a second box , a small tea chest he found , with metal corners . |
| 18 | He was a nice person and I think he was genuinely interested in how David was getting on , although he could n't get him any bookings . |
| 19 | He could n't have it both ways . |
| 20 | He could n't use his own car because they were going to be way out of radio range , and he needed the car telephone with the scrambler attachment . |
| 21 | So the little tailor turned to , and prepared a splendid pie , from flour and meat and onions he found there and decorated its top with beautifully formed pastry leaves and flowers , for he was a craftsman , even if he could not exercise his own craft . |
| 22 | ‘ No , but all the other proof was in West Germany so he could not do anything more . |
| 23 | Alexander asked if the doctor knew what that something was , but he could not give him any answer . |
| 24 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 25 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 26 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 27 | Firstly , he could not reconcile his own experience with the descriptions of conversion given in books on the subject , such as Repentance by William Perkins . |
| 28 | Sandison began , though he could not imagine what these might be . |
| 29 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 30 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |