Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 2 | He might have brought it with him but more likely it was already there with the other tools in the garage . ’ |
| 3 | He might have had it with him to protect himself against " an imminent and particular threat " . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought he might have left them with somebody else at the college , ’ Loretta suggested weakly . |
| 5 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure he could have saved him with all the modern equipment we have . |
| 7 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 8 | If they did n't tell Mrs Blakey he would continue to follow them with his carrier-bag , talking . |
| 9 | When he thought about that voice he felt he would like to murder her with a knife himself . |
| 10 | ‘ Can I give my Right Honourable Friend two big thank-yous ! ’ , he cried , in a tone suggesting that he would like to accompany them with two big kisses . |
| 11 | He knows that many of those now present will be eager to go with him on this adventure , but first of all he would like to present them with a challenge . |
| 12 | He looked as if he would like to sear her with another acid remark but he remained silent , as she did , apart from a few non-committal remarks , all through dinner . |
| 13 | He would have defended her with lawyers against any attempt of her husband 's to get her back , but there was none ; perhaps , as he himself had barked out in jest , Arkwright had got himself a mistress . |
| 14 | Whether he would have made it with his fairly anaemic academic record at Wellington is another matter . |
| 15 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 16 | He would have passed it with flying colours . |
| 17 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 18 | The more he can find to dazzle us with the greater is the compliment that he pays to Eden . |
| 19 | We are not advocates of the ‘ prosperity gospel ’ , but we do recognise that the people God definitely seems to entrust with finances are those whom he can trust to hold them with an open hand . |