Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore he would instruct all the dealers in his charge to do the same , on the grounds that a joint effort would shift the share price , and that , besides , the company 's prospects were good anyway . |
| 2 | The less initiative the worker has , the better he can tolerate such a job . |
| 3 | But on day-to-day issues or on detailed matters where the minister would not be authorized to intervene by the relevant act , however much he might discuss these points on an informal basis and influence the actions of the board , Parliament can do nothing . |
| 4 | If only he would drop all this ridiculous pretence , stop acting the fool and raise his game one more time . |
| 5 | But if only he would try some of his own tonic ! |
| 6 | It would be a trespass to goods and it would be usurping the owner 's rights , for only he would have any right to do such an act and no one could contend that there was any implied consent or authority to a customer to do any such thing . |
| 7 | If only he could get enough room to swing it against the Eye … |
| 8 | Daniel is our guest perhaps he would like some more cake . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps he 'll make some jewellery for you , one day . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 11 | Perhaps he can raise some cash on a patent granted last week or an application he filed in happier days . |
| 12 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | Is it not the case that the Minister perhaps he will confirm this — abstained to allow through an emasculated formula which gave pregnant women in this country the equivalent of sick pay ? |
| 14 | Perhaps he will answer those questions when he replies . |
| 15 | Perhaps he will read this . |
| 16 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 17 | Even then , such assessment as there was was lost in Burgessian rhetoric : ‘ Mr Motion does all he can to chronicle those years and years of world without event , in which the interesting things happened in trousers , in pubs , and on paper … |
| 18 | In doing so he may silence those who have suspected that he will never be a dealmaker of Ross 's calibre . |
| 19 | In the 600cc class which should be the best of the day , Jim Moodie is fastest on 115.90 but if McCallen gets it together he can win this race for the third year in a row . |
| 20 | And one day soon he might fulfil all that potential . ’ |
| 21 | He hands Esau back his birthright , and soon he will make that clear in words , or , to be more precise , in a word . |
| 22 | Soon he will change those plans , and make them more elaborate . |
| 23 | Soon he will become another statistic , the 3,045th death of the Troubles . |
| 24 | Anyway he 'll judge that one well but it 's er falls neatly for Gemmell and a good lay off here to Kingsley Black early chance for Nottingham Forest and really Kingsley Black will be as they say rather disappointed he did n't do better there Ron Atkinson . |
| 25 | He was a pain in Sergeant Bramble 's bottom and the sooner he could recommend that Quince be transferred to somewhere more metropolitan , where robbery with violence might occur , the happier Bramble would be . |
| 26 | Hopefully he 'll stay that way . ’ |
| 27 | Not that when apprenticeship is past he will do these things thoughtlessly , but in this context ‘ thoughtless ’ means not ‘ unreasoning ’ but ‘ heedless ’ . |
| 28 | Similarly he might reject both " Dragons do not exist " and " ( Ex ) x is a dragon " as ill-formed . |
| 29 | So now he 'll get all the drink tomorrow . |
| 30 | ‘ If he went now he would see all his previous life here as a waste of time , and in a way he is wreaking vengeance on his mother by being embittered and something of a failure — saying , look what you 've done to me . ’ |