Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know not how long he will do so . |
| 2 | " She could have had any number of others , but no , only he would do . " |
| 3 | It was the same thing , his sister then , his father now , Georgia walking towards a beating in the school yard , Dad fighting for breath in his red chair , he wanted to save them , only he could do it , who else was there , but he had n't , he could n't , not really , but the wanting to , the failure to , you could n't get away from that . |
| 4 | We know that ‘ theologically ’ only he can do it , but we can play our part . |
| 5 | Perhaps he would do so one day . |
| 6 | Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps he 'll do it to music . ’ |
| 8 | As I 've told her , now that she 's left him and his personal life 's in such a mess , perhaps he 'll do what these managerial types usually do in such circumstances , and throw himself into his work . " |
| 9 | In a dry little voice , Charley said : ‘ Look on the bright side , perhaps he 'll do the eating . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps he can do it ? ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps he could do it again . |
| 12 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 13 | Perhaps he could do something , could speak to Howarth for them , could use his influence with Estabs . |
| 14 | It was all he could do to stop . |
| 15 | The tears on Cullam 's cheeks awoke in him a nausea and a rage so fierce that it was all he could do to prevent himself from striking him . |
| 16 | Then , because fomenting distrust between the two men was all he could do , ‘ You get a chance , shoot him , ’ he advised with a nod at Louis : ‘ You do n't , he 'll kill you . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The object he had tripped over was the pistol ; it was so heavy that it was all he could do to raise it . |
| 19 | Sam was so relieved at the news that mother and child were well that the fact that he had n't won the wager was nothing to him , and when he first laid eyes on the baby all he could do was kneel down and weep for joy . |
| 20 | Want was all he could do , for his body had long ago ceased to function in that way . |
| 21 | Sometimes , when he passed those gigantic hoardings advertising Hollywood films with vast drawings of pouting female lips , it was all he could do to stop himself wanking on the spot . |
| 22 | Riven felt a thrill of fear in his stomach , like ice poured liquid into the bottom of his lungs ; and then it was all he could do to steer his terrified horse in Murtach 's wake , and stay aboard as it swerved past rocks and bushes , and leapt hollows with the thunder of the other horses like a storm in his ears , and the rain a freezing hail in his face that blinded him . |
| 23 | It was all he could do to spell his own name . |
| 24 | At the end of the match all he could do was criticise Leeds , saying they should have attacked more , and at least scum had class/flair . |
| 25 | So he could do no worse than consider Tony Cottee , unwanted by Everton , Tranmere 's John Aldridge or Clive Allen of West Ham . |
| 26 | But I she 'd had to lend Ian some money the week before last so so he could do their pocket money . |
| 27 | I thought well he 's got a couple of kids so he could do with a little girl . |
| 28 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 29 | WHEN THE pilot of the stricken US fighter plane pulled the handle to eject from his EF-111 on Thursday , he was acknowledging the inevitable ; there was nothing more he could do to save his £10 million ‘ Raven ’ from crashing , only save the life of his navigator and himself . |
| 30 | The doctor felt there was nothing more he could do for me . |