Example sentences of "he [verb] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it .
2 We have heard quite a lot , colleagues , about pensions and pension schemes over the last eighteen months perhaps we have to actually thank Mr Maxwell for raising the issue , even if those pensioners he cheated wo n't thank him .
3 This will not prevent an equitable interest passing to the buyer but the court will not grant specific performance unless the seller 's lien can be fully protected and until paid in full he is entitled to vote the shares as he thinks will best protect his interest .
4 Will he share with the House his thoughts about the atmosphere that he thinks will now prevail in Cammell Laird , which finds itself unable to compete for naval orders ?
5 Many of the rooms he found would not do .
6 Now that type of exception would mean that the practical difficulties to which he referred would not arise except in the comparatively few cases that arise of the particular type .
7 While what he says may not add up to a warning in the strict disciplinary sense , you should be left in no doubt about where you stand .
8 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt .
9 Seb had an ache inside him caused by Anna that he believed would never leave him .
10 But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone .
11 But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone .
12 The leaders of the groups that he mentions might well come to some sort of compromise — I might have achieved that — but I would not be able to command a majority of Members , who have other ideas .
13 He had wept almost at the calling up of Michael Soames , who he thought might never dance again , but had given us a most glowing description of an Egyptian hand dance by Mr Anton Dolin .
14 What he saw would n't change Wellington 's thinking : it had n't in fifty years , so why should it now ?
15 And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in .
16 They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved .
17 Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life .
18 Reni had not changed , thought Huy , remembering the oily modesty with which , even in the old days , he had scored social points off colleagues who he knew could not compete .
19 He was voicing a desire which he feared might only bring him Meh'Lindi 's contempt — so soon after she had honoured and anointed him with her body .
20 For Link project manager Mr Ken Lee , it is the first step in a scheme which he hopes will soon cover 600 Darlington companies and generate £2m .
21 And when Mr Kohl speaks in a way he hopes will not antagonise the Kremlin , he does so with an eye on the 350,000 Soviet troops still sitting in Germany .
22 All that time , Lou had been writing songs with Eric Gaffney , little nuggets of openness and hysteria he felt could n't compete with J 's ego-driven broader strokes .
23 There is otherwise a grave danger that the people whom he addresses might well regard the policeman as a rival lout .
24 Although there had clearly been a great deal of bumping and brawling , Aboyeur 's jockey Edwin Piper declared on unsaddling that he had would not object .
25 See , so he said would n't like one taken , taken from
26 she wants to be near and he said could n't let her go
27 Her hair was fair , expertly styled to look wind-swept , her make-up discreet , her suit , although clearly expensive , was understated elegance to a T. This was the woman whom Feargal said he hoped would n't come ?
28 The dreadful things that he forecasts will not happen .
29 And only Jinny knew that the news he wanted would never come .
30 Accordingly , he formulates a hypothetical set of computational constraints which he claims will both assess the degree of match between two views so as to choose the better one , and typically force a 3-D interpretation which is both unique and veridical .
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