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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Seb had an ache inside him caused by Anna that he believed would never leave him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There is otherwise a grave danger that the people whom he addresses might well regard the policeman as a rival lout . |
| 14 | And only Jinny knew that the news he wanted would never come . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | An Egyptian scientist has developed a gel based on petroleum waste which he claims can dramatically improve the productivity of sandy soil . |
| 17 | Lloyd recommends that the British public at large should pop along to Junior Wimbledon and get their first look at a player he believes can finally end the seemingly interminable search for Britain 's first major male champion since the sepia days of Fred Perry . |