Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Walker : I think that he should explain that virtually all the money for that project was to be public expenditure . |
| 2 | , editor of the present edition , is very well qualified for the task as he has , for many years , worked as a guide on these mountains , in particular on Mount Kenya , which he must know as well as anyone . |
| 3 | He 'll suggest that anyway , as soon as he and the King begin to see the surrender is n't coming by the Feast of St Nicholas . ’ |
| 4 | Then I think : he 'll think that too , so if I do n't go to the car , he 'll be waiting . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'll leave as soon as I pay him off . ’ |
| 6 | ’ Rocastle , as now he must , had played his part for Leeds but paced= himself more than he might have and still succumbed to cramp 15= minutes from time . |
| 7 | Corbett stayed in the castle the rest of the day , wandering about , looking for any place he could sit and quietly meditate on all he knew . |
| 8 | He could dance as well as fight , and he could make polite conversation . |
| 9 | I knew he could succeed where perhaps you would not believe me . ’ |
| 10 | He could smell that even now . |
| 11 | Paddington could hardly believe his ears and he hurried back outside as fast as he could go but once again he was too late . |
| 12 | In being who he was : that was his vocation , and discovering how far he could go and even , fatally , what he could get away with . |
| 13 | The son of the family went to California , learnt what made the Californians tick , and swore he could do as well , if not better , back in France . |
| 14 | If he knew the probabilities of the three states of the market , he could compute and then maximise the expected profit . |
| 15 | When the angina patient seemed to be stable he too was transported to an ambulance to be taken to hospital so that he could rest and fully recover from his attack . |
| 16 | At many moments of weakness , or love , Thomas had spent far more money than he could afford or even wished for the sake of Simon 's joy in the holidays . |
| 17 | A rich girl , then ; but he could see that already from the delicacy of her skin , and the fine soft hands which lay crossed over her small breasts . |
| 18 | When he looked back he could see that once more she hugged her children to her . |
| 19 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
| 20 | Its continued presence always surprised him since it served no purpose that he could see except symbolically to cut off the headland and to give travellers pause to consider whether they really wanted to continue . |
| 21 | Sir Richard Doll , who first discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer , said he could understand that even doctors who smoked found it difficult to quit in spite of the dangers to health . |
| 22 | So he could drive and so there 'd be no problem she says . |
| 23 | I was hoping he 'd laugh and so allow my giggle a justifiable release . |
| 24 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 25 | But when we emigrated to Mexico as teenagers with our mother and stepfather in the mid-fifties , he suddenly burst into articulate Spanish and English — to which he later added French and Indonesian — all of which he used to protect and further his folle indépendance . |
| 26 | He us , he used , he used to confiscate as well right ? |
| 27 | Subconsciously , she must have sensed the potent effect he could have on her , an instinctive recognition of the dangerous power he would assume if once she had known his touch . |
| 28 | I thought that , if I did n't listen , soon he would stop and then we would go home and life would start again , the way it had always been before . |
| 29 | His lips were moving quietly as he mouthed to himself what he would do if ever he had Corbett in his power . |
| 30 | He would stand and just look at his trusted trainer , not moving off as directed . |