Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] he [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular study for so he could listen to it . |
| 2 | ‘ Aah thowt as 'ow 'e 'd 'ave more sense . ’ |
| 3 | That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party . |
| 4 | He was afraid of how he might react if he confronted Zoe now . |
| 5 | Forester had an idea of how he might get the additional information , but it would have to wait until tomorrow . |
| 6 | ‘ He told me , ’ said Roland , neutrally , watching for a sign of her consciousness of what Fergus might have said , of how he might have spoken . |
| 7 | While watching the Moi trackers scurrying up the trees , he began to daydream of how he would return alone to compete with all the youths of her village in feats of strength and athleticism . |
| 8 | But by the latter part of the 1970s he experienced an irresistible urge to return to the private sector and he had a very clear idea of how he would go about it . |
| 9 | He talked of all that remained to be done , of how he would do it all , bit by bit ; said that first of all the attic should be examined , for so much rain soaking in must have affected the beams . |
| 10 | She thought of him , of how he must feel now , mourning his dead sister and wishing he had had some last word from her ; and then , how she would give him Mrs Gotobed 's message , to comfort him . |
| 11 | This fact we believe to be fundamental to our understanding of how he will learn ; he will learn language through an interaction between the efforts of his own brain and events in the outside world . |
| 12 | The gleam in the missionary 's eye suggested that Jaq 's account of how much he could perceive — ‘ Even to a glimpse of the Emperor 's beacon ? ’ — and of how he could hide his own spark of phosphorescence , meant that this lad was singularly blessed . |
| 13 | Until now , Livingston has consistently protested total innocence of how he could have provided a positive sample in a Sports Council test just before the Games . |
| 14 | An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him . |
| 15 | Their report clearly indicated that this coroner had been wrong in his judgement of how he should conduct his inquest which , in the opinion of the committee , should have been held after the public inquiry into the cause of the accident . |
| 16 | She dimly perceived the terrible conflict that went on in Johnny 's mind between the dark side of his nature and the knowledge of how he should behave — of the actions expected of him because , as he would have put it , he was a Gentleman . |
| 17 | To her it was indicative of how he 'd come to view their relationship . |
| 18 | When he reached an Underground station he bought a ticket without even thinking of where he might want to go . |
| 19 | ‘ I think Neil Kinnock will probably stand down quite soon , ’ said Mr George Galloway , MP for Glasgow Hillhead : ‘ He has reached the summit of where he can take the British Labour Party . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm not sure though of where he 'd fit in under the current team structure . |
| 21 | As a bachelor , Adeane had no concept of the intense pleasure fatherhood had brought the Prince , and no understanding of why he should want to spend so much time at home . |
| 22 | Otherwise , she 'd have gone after him , told him it was n't a matter of right or wrong , it was a matter of when he 'd admit he was an arrogant , overbearing liar . |
| 23 | Only the barest biographical outline is sketched , only one anecdote is related about him , and no information is recorded about any he may have endowed or any works he may have written . |
| 24 | Let us hope that for once he will stand up and be counted and go down fighting — as go down he assuredly will . |
| 25 | I do not remember much about my father — just odd memories , like when he would lift me up on his horse and give me a ride . |
| 26 | From below he could see that its skin was strangely pale and pink between its wide-straddled hind legs and the tight black bag of its scrotum , he thought , seemed incongruously small and toylike for such a massive , murderous animal . |
| 27 | Before long he would react even more extremely , exclaiming bitterly , ‘ There really are no more unbelieving and hard-hearted people than clergymen , and ’ — taking a vicious sideswipe at his mother — ‘ especially clergyman 's wives . ’ |
| 28 | Before long he would find something better to do . |
| 29 | He conducts great concerts , and before long he will make the lame walk — and then he does just a good concert and people are disappointed . |
| 30 | To give all his players better club conditions he persuaded his directors to spend money on improving dressing and recreation rooms , and before long he could boast that the Town 's facilities were the best in the country . |