Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the thing is , he saw it without an M O T and that lad wanted it , as soon as you 've got it M O T 'd he do n't want it |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd better earn his £200,000 , this new guy — sounds like we 're going to pay for it . ’ |
| 3 | I told him he 'd better tell his friends , or his girlfriends , that when they call at our house if they do n't give names , they 're not talking to him ! |
| 4 | He 'd better make his milk and water last ! |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd better wear his best suit then . ’ |
| 6 | I thought you were gon na go and tell him that he 'd better see me today . |
| 7 | He 'd better get it over with . |
| 8 | So I think he 'd better roll his sleeves even higher and start repairing the damage , plenty of it caused by his own hastiness . |
| 9 | Maxim half turned away then decided he 'd better say his piece anyway . |
| 10 | And if he 'd any sense he would have guessed my reaction . |
| 11 | And yet he can watch the telly and he reads the newspaper and yet you do n't , he ca n't understand English but he 'd be watching this right and it is ha laugh so something must be funny but he du n no what 's happening . |
| 12 | Though she knew he did not deserve it , Charlotte could not suppress a stab of sympathy for him . |
| 13 | And if any words could be found in the Statute which provided that besides paying Income Tax on income people should pay for advantages or emoluments in its wider sense ( such as I think the word " emoluments " here , has not , for reasons to be presently given ) , there is no doubt of Mr Tennant 's possession of a material advantage , which made his salary of higher value to him than if he did not possess it , and upon the hypothesis which I have just indicated , would be taxable accordingly . |
| 14 | Max Weber was an ardent nationalist whose political sociology was guided by the principle of the ‘ primacy of the interests of the nation state ’ , which he enunciated vigorously in his inaugural lecture at Freiburg in 1895 ; but he did not set himself to examine with any thoroughness the grounds of such ‘ primacy ’ . |
| 15 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 16 | He only knew that he had lost her , and she might be the liar , cheat and whore he thought she was , or the injured innocent she claimed to be — he did not care which , for whatever she was she had taken his life and his hopes with her . |
| 17 | If Foley were a traitor , he did not care who knew it , it would seem . |
| 18 | He did not dispute her catalogue . |
| 19 | He did not visit her again until the following evening and his first words on entering the room were , ‘ What on earth have you done with Harry ? ’ |
| 20 | He did not eat it but put it in his pocket , where it would lie forgotten for months . |
| 21 | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television 's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to ‘ spend and spend again' when they took office . |
| 22 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 23 | Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence . |
| 24 | And with a calm purpose that he did not feel he went out into the street . |
| 25 | ‘ I suspect he did not feel he could trust someone , ’ said Cramer delicately . |
| 26 | He did not feel he could write freely if the typescript was readily accessible to his mother . |
| 27 | What level of income this had been , he did not feel he could reveal . |
| 28 | He did not feel he could work on such a project , however , until " Little Gidding " was finished . |
| 29 | He did not feel he ought to throw it away but it must be kept from her sight . |
| 30 | Furthermore , although he had been pretty well openly accused of dishonesty at the meeting , his moral standards were much the same as Richard 's , only he did not feel he was well enough off to apply them as often , and in such a wide range of conditions , as the Skipper . |