Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne , true friend that she was , would never give in to him and reveal where the cottage was situated , no matter what bullying tactics he might employ . |
| 2 | Lyons , in fact , would support this view and , whatever other characteristics he might attribute to literacy , or to specific language-systems such as English , he would not associate them with lack of ambiguity , as do Hildyard , Olson and Greenfield . |
| 3 | On Fridays and other fast-days he would lock himself up in the church for many hours . |
| 4 | Nevertheless she spent her spare time preparing for his possible return , practising singing the songs he used to like , tears rolling down her cheeks all the while . |
| 5 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 6 | But while he still had legs he could run . |
| 7 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 8 | I knew that , when we reported in September , if he expressed his adverse opinions to journalists he would dominate the headlines , and the Report might be irretrievably damaged . |
| 9 | If B is to avoid his application to Strasbourg being declared inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies he will have to show that he is absolved from having had to raise the issue of the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction before the House of Lords because legal advice , erroneous but not wholly unreasonable , suggested either that the House would not hear his arguments or that the relisting option remained open . |
| 10 | ‘ Church leaders are convinced that ( Mr de Klerk ) does not appreciate the far-reaching nature of the steps he must take to get negotiations off the ground , ’ the archbishop said . |
| 11 | Edward , now in Oxford , felt obliged to write home to his mother with full details of the affair and for the next fortnight pondered the steps he should take . |
| 12 | The fact that a peasant 's farm buildings were in the pueblo limited the number of cattle and hens he could keep ( it may be quite difficult to buy an egg in a town of 3,000 inhabitants ) and was one more factor inhibiting a satisfactory balance between animal and crop husbandry . |
| 13 | In many absolutist states the myth that if only the Tsar or the Führer knew about the people 's grievances he would act to resolve them was carefully fostered by state propaganda and even more so in Romania by the Securitate 's rumour machine . |
| 14 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 15 | Yet in those eyes he could see fear . |
| 16 | She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be . |
| 17 | as if he had X-ray eyes he could visualise the metal cylinder concealed within the bag , the pointed bomb with its tail fins reclining at an angle of forty-five degrees . |
| 18 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 19 | In return for their addresses he would allow me to stop doing press-ups in the mud . |
| 20 | If he needed a sympathetic ear for his worries he would have probably got one from Alphonse Chapanis , director of the Communications Research Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland . |
| 21 | In exchange for funds he would get the Ping Tiao to do his dirty work — to burn the East European Plantations and create havoc with City Europe 's food supplies , thus de-stabilising Li Shai Tung 's City . |
| 22 | an interim award will be made if a defender can meet the obligation either from his own funds or from funds he could dispose of at will . |
| 23 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 24 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 25 | Remember , in non-League football a player is respected not only for the number of goals he can put away . |
| 26 | For many of his supporters he could do no wrong and any semblance of wrong having been done was explained as part of the ecumenical conspiracy to defeat true Protestantism . |
| 27 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 28 | The number of sales the trader could make was limited to the number of cars he could get . |
| 29 | From these amorphous and uncertain images he would create his own imaginings , superimposed and dominant , but essentially just as incomplete , just as distorted — as were the others by his own preconceptions , his own personality . |
| 30 | As anyone but Richard himself might have predicted , the palpable , screaming existence of his daughter , Holly , assuaged whatever doubts he might have had about his readiness for parenthood . |