Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] [verb] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd have been able to certify him insane , or he 'd have done something so terrible and criminal they could have put him in prison , where he 'd be sodomised and knifed ; quietly disposed of without any fuss because the rules were different in there . |
| 2 | He also said that he would want to do his own stunt work in an escape sequence . |
| 3 | Tony said he would not allow himself to get into the same state and that he would talk to someone about how he was feeling , probably his father or even his mother , and that he would try to do something active about his problems , rather than just giving up . |
| 4 | She smiled blankly when he confided darkly that he 'd have to do something about that . |
| 5 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects , and then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again in an infinite regress , so he has a problem , basically , about calling beauty itself beautiful . |
| 6 | And then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again , in an infinite regress . |
| 7 | ‘ I had fallen into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . ’ |
| 8 | I felt so sorry for the horse while he was cutting his teeth that I pussyfooted around , falling into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . |
| 9 | Ask ask him if he 'd like to do it . |
| 10 | It 's very tragic but he would have done it for anybody . |
| 11 | But he could have done something quite dramatic and significant there . |
| 12 | ‘ He believed in the code of loyalty and silence but he could have done himself a favour by letting us know where all the gold was . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The test for Neil is whether he could have done anything better to prepare himself for the task ahead . |
| 14 | Tom would have had to be pushed a lot further before he would have done it . |
| 15 | I had to invoke your sacred name before he would agree to do it . |
| 16 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |