Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 2 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 3 | The sense of dispossession sustained an underworld of thugs , drug pushers , and thieves ( I wanted to write about crime in Hawaii , but the godfather of the North Shore let me know that he 'd rather I did n't ) . |
| 4 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 5 | Nigel had got her measure enough by now to know that he would never be allowed to insist on anything , so he approached the subject carefully . |
| 6 | I knew him well enough by now to know that he would never presume to tell me what to do . |
| 7 | But after about twenty paces , when she had forgotten that he might still be looking , the shoulders drooped , her footsteps slackened , and she walked like someone in a dream . |
| 8 | Impossible as it seemed , he had forgotten that he must never , under any circumstances , leave her presence without kissing her cheek as a dutiful son should always do . |
| 9 | At that same moment , however , Travis , who had appeared equally dumbstruck , seemed to come to and realise that he could no longer continue to speak openly of his love or his problems . |
| 10 | We were both shocked to discover that he could neither ride nor walk , and was lying on the grass , waiting for us . |
| 11 | She doubted that he would ever have had reason to suggest that to Nicole . |
| 12 | Somehow she doubted that he 'd now ever believe she was innocent of her father 's plans , and that , if her father was successful in forcing Ace 's hand , she would be the one who would suffer . |
| 13 | Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place . |
| 14 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 15 | As a result , Sir Thomas has resolved that he can no longer act as go-between in respect of the prince 's letters to yourself . ’ |
| 16 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 17 | Working alongside other pioneers he was first spontaneously discovering new possibilities in camera technique and then he found that he could equally spontaneously draw on his experiences and his own values . |
| 18 | When he arrived he found that he 'd already become something of a legend . |
| 19 | She glared back at him , nettled that he should even ask such a thing . |
| 20 | At the point where Theseus finally accepts that he will never see his son again ( ‘ Je ne te verrai plus ! o juste châtiment ! ’ , |
| 21 | I do n't know if 'e 'll ever do it but yer never can tell wiv Billy . ’ |
| 22 | I still do n't know if he 'll ever come across . |
| 23 | They 'd destroyed his career and he did n't even know if he 'd ever find out why . |
| 24 | She would tell him anything he wanted to know if he would just let go of her , let her get away from him . |
| 25 | He had n't put pen to paper since the day before Martin died , and he doubted if he would ever do so again . |
| 26 | On his back , on his bunk , he doubted if he would ever trust another man again . |
| 27 | I should never have looked and he should never really have said just look at that , oh aye ! |
| 28 | Michael wonders if he would ever gain sufficient skills in photography or desk top publishing to form part of a cooperative or enterprise . |
| 29 | One wonders whether he would still be so well remembered had he lived his monastic life in the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire in Roussillon . |
| 30 | Within a couple of months Constanze was pregnant , and Mozart realized that he would soon have a family to support on what was still a precarious income . |