Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I really do not think he would understand . ’ |
| 32 | In his reply St. Johnston said that the Chief Inspector of Constabulary at the Home Office , whom he had consulted , did not think he should accept the invitation to join the working party , but that there would be no objection to his attending any meeting to which he might be invited . |
| 33 | Alan and Maryon both felt that six weeks would probably be enough and did not think he could manage to continue on this diet for another three weeks . |
| 34 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 35 | ‘ No-one is so old that he does not think he could live another year ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Unfortunately , his personal secretary said she did not think he could become actively involved , but I am writing to the Prime Minister Mr Major and George Howard , the Environment Secretary , seeking their support . ’ |
| 37 | Frank Stacey , his director of studies , who knows Paul as a quiet , slightly withdrawn student , said : ‘ I do not think he will face any problems coming back . ’ |
| 38 | Maybe he just thinks he can beat me . ’ |
| 39 | She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather . |
| 40 | I 'm not suggesting he 'd last long , ’ Gusev continued . |
| 41 | ‘ He told me that all his life he was such a shit , and he finally realized he could make someone as happy as he made me , ’ recalls Joey . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | ‘ Of course you must appreciate I can not guarantee he will see you . ’ |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | With the easy grace and dignity associated with the old amateur tradition there was never any doubt that the job would come to him , and so gifted was he as a batsman that one somehow assumed he would slip easily into it once he had learned the ropes . |
| 46 | But when the time came she did not expect he would want to leave his shooting … |
| 47 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 48 | I just hope he 'll carry on leaving out good players in order to give Robson a game . |
| 49 | ‘ He looks fitter , sleeker , and better , ’ Robson said , ‘ and we just hope he can score a goal for us from the wing . |
| 50 | What level of income this had been , he did not feel he could reveal . |
| 51 | ‘ I suspect he did not feel he could trust someone , ’ said Cramer delicately . |
| 52 | He did not feel he could write freely if the typescript was readily accessible to his mother . |
| 53 | He did not feel he could work on such a project , however , until " Little Gidding " was finished . |
| 54 | Democratic party chairman Ron Brown added : ‘ George Bush has already said he would do anything to win this election . |
| 55 | And then I asked my father on Tuesday to remind him and he said , he 'd already said he 'd fetch them in on Tuesday . |
| 56 | But Polybius would of course have had to jettison his pet idea of the mixed constitution , and generally speaking he would have had to admit that those Romans whose minds appeared so transparent to him were in fact much more mysterious creatures . |
| 57 | ‘ It 's just like he can make command decisions ! |
| 58 | She tried not to wish he could go away even though the room was cramping them . |
| 59 | Mum and Dad are no doubt just wishing he 'd take up an indoor sport instead . |
| 60 | Though she had said she was too young for them she had been enraptured by them in a tiny jeweller 's in Pollensa but Fernando had hurried her away saying he would buy her the real thing one day . |