Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of Lewis 's later self that he should have seen no virtue at all in Tillyard 's approach , and that furthermore he should have labelled it ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 2 | In fact , he was able to take the morning coach to Holborn and walk the brief distance to Clerkenwell , but the fare troubled him and he did not know how long he could afford to pay it . |
| 3 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 4 | He may have survived if only he could have found it . |
| 5 | Perhaps he ought to have realised it was too soon , or his superiors ought to have realised . |
| 6 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 7 | The object he had tripped over was the pistol ; it was so heavy that it was all he could do to raise it . |
| 8 | Obviously he would promise to make it worth your while . |
| 9 | And if the old boy in the field had got a grudge against the bloke taking it off he used to shove it anywhere so he 'd have to pull it off , instead of following the the seam round , you see ? |
| 10 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 11 | It should be that Richard does it , though he might choose to delegate it . |
| 12 | I thought , well he could have done it |
| 13 | Well he must have done it . |
| 14 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 15 | But at the same time so presumably he would 've supported it . |
| 16 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 17 | If he could n't get her practice one way , then he would try to get it by another method . |
| 18 | ‘ Then he must have switched it off when he persuaded Suzie not to return to England with her friends as planned . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know how he failed to score ( okay the keeper stopped it ) but maybe he should have wellyed it a bit more . |
| 20 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 21 | Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) . |
| 22 | Heat it up in the microwave otherwise he 'll have to have it tomorrow . |
| 23 | When he ‘ found his car he sat behind the wheel , gripping it so tight he could 've snapped it . |