Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed .
2 In due course he 'll rub it off himself . ’
3 Instead you list some possible rewards he may be gaining from the phone calls :
4 He also had another er , what we call a journey waybill and that , he used to record on there at each termini he used to record the time and the ticket numbers that he 'd got in his rack at that particular time , so it could be seen between certain times that a ticket perhaps was sold between Witton and Rushmere Heath .
5 For however he acquired that money he must have acquired it , Wexford was certain , during the 19th or the 20th of May .
6 want that bit he wo n't talk to me if I had that .
7 But if the youngster follows normal patterns he will return home after the tests to await the selection of the donor and final preparations for the NHS hospital procedure .
8 But if the youngster follows normal patterns he will return home after the tests to await the selection of the donor and final preparations for the NHS hospital procedure .
9 He reached into his pocket and extracted the largest coin he could find .
10 As justification for claiming strong Norman support he could advance the wickedness of Harold , the ‘ backwardness ’ of the English church , the increasing separation of Scandinavian — English politics from the mainlines of central and southern European development and , perhaps most immediately attractive to his baronial supporters , the promise of considerable territorial gains if the gamble came off .
11 Do not correct any regional accent he may have .
12 He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops .
13 Out of that income he would have put £1,500 per annum back into the firm , so he would have had £6,000 a year to spend or save .
14 She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot .
15 Even with only half those Spanish coins he could buy all he wanted and more .
16 So maybe that afternoon he 'd only get two calls done , but at least we gain more business out of it .
17 To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’
18 In that case he might offer his decision as a surprising interpretation " of the statute or precedent when it is really nothing of the kind .
19 In that case he 'll tell a different tale . ’
20 In that case he will not be able to increase the rent payable under the subtenancy or to oppose the grant of a new tenancy to the subtenant should he wish to do so ( see " Business Tenancies — Traps for the Unwary " ( 1978 ) LSG 371 ) .
21 oh no they wo n't , in that case he 'd hold a fucking dinner and dance , he would n't hold a disco
22 For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery .
23 Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour .
24 This is not at all the case and if Tam ( who is usually very accurate in his writing ) read the material coming from the European Parliament he would know that this is not the case .
25 In the light of the Minister 's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) , will he guarantee that at European level he will press for a system of mandatory labelling so that eggs are labelled ’ battery ’ , ’ barn eggs ’ , ’ free range ’ or whatever ?
26 His father , he said , had the right to make decisions of that kind , and perhaps he was aware of the long-term economic loss he would suffer from withdrawing from the joint enterprise .
27 With that cough he will be easy to track down and probably wo n't feel much like running away . ’
28 It was so damned unfair that Henry was n't the complete charlatan he should have been .
29 He was consciously allowing her to see his softer side , and for such a proud , private man that was perhaps the greatest compliment he would ever pay her .
30 Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away .
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