Example sentences of "he [verb] [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Listen carefully to what he has to say about your hair , and the sort of style he thinks might look good on you . |
2 | ‘ The artist has commenced his Description at Coniston Water , and pursued a line which he thinks will have less to be retraced than any other he could have chosen . ’ |
3 | He would meet American women of all kinds whose faces he imagined would reflect mixed nationalities , and he would tell them he was an actor who had performed before the Queen . |
4 | Scargill argued for national unity within the ( federal ) union , against the growing call for local wage and conditions bargaining — which he believed would favour some fields but be the harbinger of closure for others . |
5 | Prominent in his thinking at the time was Wilhelm Reich , the advocate of the practice of free love , which he believed would bring all power systems crashing to the ground . |
6 | We were referred by Mr. Lassman to certain commentaries in Current Law Statutes ( 6 ) –12 ( 1990 ) 18/2 and also in Blackstone 's Criminal Practice , 2nd ed. ( 1992 ) , p. 639 which , when he began referring to them , he believed would afford some assistance to his argument . |
7 | The official also said that Britain had failed to account for its decision to move the colony 's main naval base out of the centre of Hong Kong , a move which he believed would have serious repercussions for the stationing of the Chinese military in the territory after the 1997 transfer of power . |
8 | In two years Gould could not possibly hope to cover all the areas he guessed would prove rewarding . |
9 | Hares also , he decreed should go unmolested . |
10 | The architect then showed on paper what he thought would meet those needs , with both of them relying on the practical knowledge and experience of the builder to know how the works would have to be carried out . |
11 | The pope envisaged that whomsoever he sent would eradicate all that required uprooting throughout ‘ your island ’ — that is , Britain — and such wide jurisdiction at this time belonged only to Canterbury . |
12 | The Ambassador replied that he realized that no statement could be made on this subject and he himself had avoided making any such statement which he felt might prove embarrassing . |
13 | I agree with it , and for the reasons he gives would dismiss this appeal . |
14 | Preston immediately inaugurated a series of structural reforms within the World Bank ; on Sept. 18 he announced the replacement of a tier of senior vice-presidents with a three-member office of the president which he said would cultivate close and direct contacts with the 14 executive vice-presidents . |
15 | This would be ongoing and he hoped would involve two-way communication with the ‘ front line ’ units of sales division in order to produce better resource planning . |
16 | Secondly , regarding the CTTs , there had been negotiations which he hoped would prove constructive . |
17 | ( iv ) In the case of external objects the observations he makes may fall short of what he claims to be the case . |
18 | This , so Dobry believed , would relieve the overloaded planning machine to deal more thoroughly with the major and/or controversial applications ( which he suggested would constitute less than a half and , it was to be hoped , only a third of the total ) . |
19 | And Mr Mitterrand is already smarting over the British-backed Gatt deal , which he claims will ruin French farming . |
20 | The hon. Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) seeks leave to move the Adjournment of the House , under Standing Order No. 20 , for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ The closure of the Leyland Volvo bus manufacturing plant in Workington , with the loss of 370 jobs , announced this weekend . ’ |
21 | The hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford ( Mr. Lofthouse ) asks leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ the effect on unemployment of the announcement by British Coal to further run down the coal industry in his own and in neighbouring constituencies . ’ |
22 | Nadirpur , too , he suspected would feel happier knowing that he was closer to his wife and child ; somehow it helped . |