Example sentences of "[vb infin] he [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me he was just visiting to let me know he would come for me soon , but not just yet . |
| 2 | Did he know he would die a few years later ? |
| 3 | Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night . |
| 4 | ‘ And I did n't know he 'd come to the hotel to find you ! |
| 5 | With your dad yeah , yeah cos it 's now we 've got to order red paint , he did n't get any red because he did n't honestly think , well it did n't , he did n't know he 'd need it |
| 6 | ‘ But could n't he even raise a finger so we 'd know he can understand us ? ’ |
| 7 | We know , then , that he can play a little — after all , nobody has won as many tour events in a year since Bob Tway in 1986 — but we did n't know he could make an audience laugh , or that he had such an offbeat approach to the game . |
| 8 | I did n't know he could sing . ’ |
| 9 | 2 years ago Teddy Sutton did n't know he could carve ; now his work is on display at up to £300 a time . |
| 10 | He let Sarazen know he could straighten out his game for him ‘ before the bell rings ’ , caddies ' parlance for before the tournament-proper starts . |
| 11 | There was n't much Walter did n't know about machines , and what he did n't know he could learn in five minutes . |
| 12 | He knows , or if he does not know he should find out , the features or conditions of the environment he has chosen to occupy , and he should act accordingly . |
| 13 | I 'd doubt he 'd like this as outpacing fast full back would not be his strongest point . |
| 14 | We may spread the bread of life with caviar , and smoke the sides of salmon to toast the fisherman of Galilee , and turn the water into the best claret , but we can not guarantee He will sit at our table unless we have laid a place for the poor , the outcast , the hungry and the friendless . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course you must appreciate I can not guarantee he will see you . ’ |
| 16 | He did not feel he ought to throw it away but it must be kept from her sight . |
| 17 | It can be a problem if , for example , the groom speaks no English : either he , or the bride and her family , may feel he ought to have the opportunity to speak at his own wedding , or that he has a duty to honour his hosts by thanking them publicly . |
| 18 | The reader may feel he can get along quite nicely without any definition ! |
| 19 | I mean s Kingsley Black has stood it in here to the second post now if he does n't feel he can get enough on it to go for goal he should keep it in the danger area just turn it back across the face of the goal and let one of the other lads have a go at it , Collimore or Rozario . |
| 20 | He may feel he can get 2 or 3 lucrative moves over a 10 year period . |
| 21 | Nobody had mentioned him either , and Jed did n't feel he should ask . |
| 22 | Somebody will then decide to give an impromptu reply if the best man does n't , which makes him feel he should have spoken . |
| 23 | Whittam Smith might feel he could achieve profits faster in a three-cornered race . |
| 24 | Perhaps the incapacity of his lieutenants in the Congo made him feel he could rely only on himself . |
| 25 | I suppose he simply did n't feel he could prevent it . |
| 26 | He did not feel he could work on such a project , however , until " Little Gidding " was finished . |
| 27 | What level of income this had been , he did not feel he could reveal . |
| 28 | ‘ I suspect he did not feel he could trust someone , ’ said Cramer delicately . |
| 29 | He did not feel he could write freely if the typescript was readily accessible to his mother . |
| 30 | ‘ I do not need your spurious concern — and , anyway , I do n't expect he 'll come back . ’ |