Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] he [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we first began to meet and talk in 1963 , he was expecting to be offered a Cabinet post in education if Labour won and he could keep in step for long enough . |
| 2 | If the lender under such an instrument had the right to require early redemption , but on exercise of that right he would receive only the original issue price , it would be unrealistic to assume that he would exercise it unless the issuer 's creditworthiness deteriorated to a significant extent . |
| 3 | Like Tilda , he found it easier to sleep when he could hear the lighters , like iron coffins on Resurrection Day , clashing each other at their moorings all night , and behind that the whisper of shoal water . |
| 4 | The tsar was wrong to think that he could rely on payment for the help he had given Austria in 1849 . |
| 5 | But this means that he will have to concede that at least some propositions are " irreducibly " existential , and if he does , he will have disavowed his own argument . |
| 6 | Some think that he will go abroad for a few days and the CIA will then engineer his return in a countercoup , just as it did in 1953 . |
| 7 | It seems to us quite unrealistic to say that he would have felt insulted . |
| 8 | This said that he would look to the judiciary , as in the past , for advice on the time to be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 9 | The Supreme Court was due to rule whether he must face impeachment proceedings on corruption charges . |
| 10 | Taking equation ( 4.29 ) to represent the economist 's model , it is easy to see that he would recommend to a government that if it wished to achieve a higher level of real output it should raise the rate of growth of the quantity of money . |
| 11 | She had been dismayed to find that he must have made enquiries in Helmsley and tracked her down , but she 'd become a much more confident and secure woman since the early days of her marriage . |
| 12 | But he had so much to do before he could leave , the milking and so on , and what with the long journey as well , he was very tired when he arrived and apparently nodded off . |
| 13 | He had talked of a new prisoner — too much to hope that he would speak of anything other than the camp — a prisoner who was an Englishman . |
| 14 | ‘ I have known Alain all his life and I find it impossible to believe that he would commit suicide . |
| 15 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 16 | Winter was coming , and Soapy knew that he must make his plans . |
| 17 | ( 74 ) McKinley was overhead to say that he would like to get the knife into Spencer 's possessions … |
| 18 | The accused said that he would blow the victim 's brains out if he was not quiet . |
| 19 | He had much to gain if he could persuade a powerful patron that mathematics , and especially his own , could be of service to Christendom . |
| 20 | He thought briefly about Surere again , and wondered with something akin to panic whether he would reappear ; then , angered with himself at this disloyalty to a former colleague and certainly a fellow-sufferer under the new regime , he dismissed the matter and concentrated instead on what he would say to Taheb . |
| 21 | that cuts that he can see every side of your |
| 22 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 23 | It is obvious that a horse will run from a stick , spurs or fear of the rider , but it is hard to accept that he will try to pull on the bit if that very action increases the pain . |
| 24 | Dunlop won this race at Carrowdore last Saturday but again McCallen will be hard to beat and he could complete a treble similar to his performance at the Ulster Grand Prix . |
| 25 | In others , he may be thrilled to think that he can inspire such passionate feelings . |
| 26 | He is an adorable person , and as he is still young we all hope that he will make a new career now . |
| 27 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 28 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 29 | However , many suspect that he will head North this SA season and in South Africa that does n't mean to rugby league . |
| 30 | The announcement by Gray , 49 , caused widespread consternation amongst political commentators as his successful 12-year congressional career had led many to predict that he would become the first black Speaker of the House . |