Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of Lewis 's later self that he should have seen no virtue at all in Tillyard 's approach , and that furthermore he should have labelled it ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 2 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 3 | One pal said : ‘ He loved her so much he would have done anything to protect her and he paid for that love with his life . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , he was already married , you see , a marriage he could never escape from , no matter how much he might have wanted to . |
| 5 | However much he might like to duck out , he can not . |
| 6 | However much he may have charmed them , they were her friends not his , and they 'd have inevitably sided with her in this fiasco . |
| 7 | I replied with caution and a slightly playful evasion that I understood that he would decide that , to which he replied that naturally he would like to take into account any hopes of mine . |
| 8 | Well naturally he 'd want to keep a boy , and your ma 's husband would n't have been too keen to have him around . ’ |
| 9 | Madeleine was his sole reason for wanting to return to England — although naturally he 'd love to see Alice if she happened to be in London . |
| 10 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 11 | Now , when there was a strict limit to how long he would have to talk to her , it was convenient — perhaps even imperative — to do so unimpeded by a third party . |
| 12 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 13 | But he did not know how long he would have to wait to do so . |
| 14 | Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately . |
| 15 | They laughed , wondering how long he 'd take to change his mind . |
| 16 | I wondered how long he 'd take to get used to it , to become , in other words , corrupt . |
| 17 | In fact , he was able to take the morning coach to Holborn and walk the brief distance to Clerkenwell , but the fare troubled him and he did not know how long he could afford to pay it . |
| 18 | If only he would stop staring at her and winking at her and getting in her way about the house so that she had to brush past him ! |
| 19 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there is really another way if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . ’ |
| 20 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there really is another way , if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . |
| 21 | If only he could manage to finish the Koran . |
| 22 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 23 | If only he could have believed the best about her all by himself . |
| 24 | If only he could have seen Anne today … ( breaks off ) . |
| 25 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 26 | If only he could have preached conventionally he might have been accepted , and if he could have imitated the smoothness of those illustrators he admired , he could have made a living . |
| 27 | If only he could have spoken to her one last time before he 'd been taken down . |
| 28 | He may have survived if only he could have found it . |
| 29 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 30 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |