Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if 'e 'll ever do it but yer never can tell wiv Billy . ’ |
| 2 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 3 | A desperate prisoner , knowing perfectly well what is expected of him may well offer to a chaplain or prison visitor any amount of repentance ; he might even undertake a religious conversion . |
| 4 | At the other extreme he sometimes pushed his boys into bed with girls in order to make himself suffer , though a part of him may also have enjoyed the proximity or heterosexual life . |
| 5 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 6 | Yet the favours and appointments she showered on him must surely have given Bothwell reason to assume that he could interpret her secret wishes . |
| 7 | Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness . |
| 8 | She did n't dare look down at Adam 's usual table — seeing him might just finish her off completely . |
| 9 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 10 | Killing him would only make him a martyr . |
| 11 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 12 | ‘ There ai n't no trains out , around that time ; and a gent like him would hardly hang about in a station buffet ! |
| 13 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 14 | No one who really knew him would ever let him down , she thought . |
| 15 | His election campaigns were notorious for their cruelty — he often made sure that those who did not vote for him would never vote again — but the depth of his involvement has never been clear . |
| 16 | Plenty of those who talk about killing him would never do it themselves . ’ |
| 17 | Then I 'm off to see Alexander O'Neal — people like him would never travel to Australia . |
| 18 | That anyone would deliberately avoid him would never enter his head . |
| 19 | But the letter each borrower will receive from him will also point out that they do n't have to reduce their payments . |
| 20 | Anyone who knew him will gladly testify that he was a disaster behind a steering wheel . |
| 21 | This part of him will never sleep . |
| 22 | A person is guilty of contributory negligence if he ought reasonably to have foreseen that , if he did not act as a reasonable , prudent man , he might be hurt himself ; and in his reckonings he must take into account the possibility of others being careless ( Denning LJ in Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd [ 1952 ] 2 QB 608 ) . |
| 23 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 24 | So , if the buyer does , he can not complain of defects which he ought thereby to have discerned . |
| 25 | In February 1870 , while the new French government of Emile Ollivier tried to hammer out a revised constitution for the reformed Empire , Bismarck opened up his campaign to persuade Leopold that he ought seriously to consider becoming King of Spain . |
| 26 | He ought therefore to disappear at the first opportunity , especially since the purpose of his stay , that of meeting Katja Müller , appeared to have lost its point … |
| 27 | He ought never to have listened to Chambers ' advice on that . |
| 28 | He may presumably take into account his previous experience of the particular applicants , if they have organised marches in the past . |
| 29 | If the shaman is exposed to the insidious effects of the fungus for too long he may eventually turn into a giant shaman mushroom . |
| 30 | He may again head to South Africa in pursuit of his cricketing career . |