Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as Tweed had predicted to Paula in a similar context , he expected it would take him months to unravel the affairs of the world-wide octopus , INCUBUS . |
| 2 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 3 | He doubted it would add up to much , though , just another of her lads , the orange or the green . |
| 4 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 5 | A planning inspector rejected plans to build a £3m private clinic because he believed it would create traffic chaos and disturb NHS hospital patients . |
| 6 | One retail analyst said he believed it would make customers more likely to spend on food and gifts . |
| 7 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 8 | When questioned about selective internment , Mr Smyth said he believed it should go ahead and be even handed , involving both loyalist and republican terrorists . |
| 9 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 10 | He claimed it would allow Heseltine to avoid mentioning that Britain was lagging behind Europe in curbing carbon emissions in the run up to the general election . |
| 11 | He claimed it will lead to job losses among Mr Hunter 's members . |
| 12 | He reckoned it would make you more … susceptible . ’ |
| 13 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 14 | If Cullam had noticed anything as he walked it would have been the rubbish , the flotsam that the river sucked in and gathered on Its journey through the meadows . |
| 15 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |
| 16 | He decided it would go as it was written while he proceeded with other matters . |
| 17 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 18 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |
| 19 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 20 | The gentleman in question did exhibit a certain alarm because when I told him why I was looking at his land he thought it might lead to a conservation order being slapped on it . |
| 21 | I can only suppose that my name had respectable associations , and he thought it might allay criticism in what might be called Athenaeum circles . |
| 22 | The reorganization was recommended by an engineer in the pages of a leading Petrograd journal , since he thought it would lead to the dissemination of experts . |
| 23 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 24 | He thought it would give Mrs Popple more time to calm down . |
| 25 | He thought it would give it a bit of glamour . |
| 26 | He thought it would do me good . |
| 27 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 28 | If Vincent had rejected a place on the scheme , then it was certain that he thought it would fail . |
| 29 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 30 | For after using his plastic seat in the conventional manner , he thought it would make a nice necklace . |