Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems little reason why the proportion of women entering HE should not equal that of men in the future , particularly as research from Scotland ( Raffe , 1984 ; Willms and Kerr , 1986 ; McPherson and Willms , 1987 ) shows that in Scotland women are not outperforming men in all SCE school examination . |
| 2 | why he should n't other than the fact that keeping |
| 3 | If a broker/dealer wishes to deal with his own customer he must generally first offer the trade to the floor . |
| 4 | Oh , he must about ninety . |
| 5 | I am not saying he might not one day be the best player for England — but at the moment he is n't . |
| 6 | but , yes , I mean , he was launched into several different careers by his father with money he could ill spare . |
| 7 | Biff shook his head , rattling his beads , and answered in scumlingo , slowly , to show that he could n't savvy . |
| 8 | He had promised himself that he would not get too involved with her , but at this moment he could no more have parted from her than he could have cut his own throat . |
| 9 | He could no more have overborne her resistance in her present state than he could kick a lame dog . |
| 10 | Herr Nordern would , yes , although he would no more have refused than he would have tried to jump over the Wall . |
| 11 | He would no more have thought of behaving as Harold Macmillan did in 1962 , and dismissing nearly a half of them as though they were junior executives in an ailing company , than it would have occurred to him to divorce his wife and marry one of his walking companions . |
| 12 | And she suspected he would not weary . |
| 13 | Sit , they said , but he would n't This week John Major began to appear on a different kind of box . |
| 14 | And I took , he swop it he he would n't three sixty two . |
| 15 | When she manoeuvred her hands out of his reach he would suddenly arch his back , straighten his legs , dig his heels into the bed and twist his body vigorously to the left , trying to get free of those firm , busy hands . |
| 16 | He ca n't that ! |
| 17 | And having got under them , he ca n't half tear them to pieces . |
| 18 | The principal remedy of a pledgee is that of sale of the pledged goods and he can also sub-pledge the goods . |
| 19 | Also to get the ball away quickly from the scrummage , the scrum-half can not convey to his opponents that the ball is out of the scrummage i.e. he can not dummy the ball . |
| 20 | For , if man is to continue to nourish that vital part of human civilisation , which is the control over the future of life on earth , it is necessary that his definition of morality , good social behaviour , and understanding of right and wrong uses the evidence to be found within the evolutionary story and which he can then enshrine in a viable ‘ god ’ . |
| 21 | So he tends to regard his father as a kind of ideal he can never equal , and tends if anything to identify with er , with his own mother , and play a kind of passive role to his , to his father . |