Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There we would be , pistols at dawn and I 'd laugh or he 'd laugh and it would all be over . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd better go and help him unpack or he 'll bite my head off . ’ |
| 3 | She felt like that fish caught by the curlew , one part of her praying that he would spit her out again , the other , perversely , longing for him to swallow her up . |
| 4 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 5 | For the moment , Mr Rocard is probably just praying that he can hold on to his seat in the Yvelines . |
| 6 | We talk about London and Grand Isle , and all the while I am praying that he will ask us on his boat . |
| 7 | He spent much time today and yesterday denying that he would increase from 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 8 | Old Doc Mac was one of the really great forensic scientists — we started together — but there 's no denying that he 'd let the reins slip a bit in recent years . |
| 9 | More important , the Theatre Royal ( 1836–7 ) and the Grey column ( 1837–8 ) in Newcastle , stately neo-classical structures which were key elements in the heroic replanning of the city centre by Richard Grainger [ q.v. ] , were evidently also his conceptions , and suggest that he might have become a more significant figure in his own right had he not died relatively young , surviving his father by a mere six years . |
| 10 | As an astute contemporary observed , " the strange thing is that de Gaulle did not , at any time , suggest that he could save [ the French people ] from [ war ] ; the suggestion was rather that if war was to come … it would be better for France if he were in charge " . |
| 11 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge . |
| 12 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge from the current upheaval . |
| 13 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | When I light-heartedly suggest that he should use Klan members who still harass him for target practice , Cash is genuinely shocked . |
| 15 | Although Ramsay proposed that he should lead the decoy party , under the royal standard , Murray insisted that he himself must do that , as was suitable . |
| 16 | But in the meantime , you can let Jones know that he 'll have some waiting of his own to do . |
| 17 | That way , a business man making an investment would know that he would get his money back within four years . |
| 18 | ‘ The same , although I do n't know that he 'd care for the description . ’ |
| 19 | There is no longer any dichotomy of truth and lies that he can manipulate from midway between the audience and the other characters . |
| 20 | She did n't doubt that he would find her . |
| 21 | He then shouted that he would burn the place down . ’ |
| 22 | He said that he and two other members of staff tried to restrain Mr Dodd who shouted that he would kill Mr Maguire . |
| 23 | He promised that He would build his church . |
| 24 | On Oct. 16 the Romanian National Assembly approved by 324 votes to seven the new Council of Ministers proposed by Prime Minister-designate Theodor Stolojan , who undertook to accelerate reforms and promised that he would continue his political neutrality and would not stand in the forthcoming ( 1992 ) elections . |
| 25 | But Mr Chirac promised that he would give his full support to the government , expressing criticism only in private to Mr Balladur . |
| 26 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 27 | He denied opposition claims that he was a hardliner , however , and promised that he would take " a rational and reasonable approach " towards the current unrest , rather than employing " harsh measures " . |
| 28 | Mr and Mrs Jonesy apologised to Dad for their son 's behaviour and promised that he would get ‘ what 's comin' to 'im when we get 'ome ’ . |
| 29 | He referred Dawn to a neurosurgeon , who promised that he could operate to cure the spasticity which kept causing her muscles to tense up involuntarily . |
| 30 | Karrimor 's project development engineer demonstrated that he could do shoulder high kicks just as easily wearing with its 20kg load as without . |