Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 2 | The Hochhauser Season had given her the courage to defy Georg — not to quarrel with him , she did n't want to do that — but to make it plain she was now her own woman , with her own life to lead , a life that might or might not include him . |
| 3 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 4 | He needs it because I suspect he 's hooked on the secrecy and excitement that could easily make him run off again . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 6 | In his hooded hand he felt a terrible clutching cramp that would not allow him to move his fingers . |
| 7 | She would have to go carefully , ask her questions in a way that would n't make him suspicious , maybe change the subject for now . |
| 8 | Syd also makes an appearance at the end of the ‘ Saucerful ’ CD on ‘ Jugband Blues ’ , a last gulp of creative oxygen before surrendering to the madness that would eventually engulf him . |
| 9 | The first Kenyan African novelist was a man of anger , developing the marxist position that would eventually bring him detention without trial for a year , followed by exile . |
| 10 | In other words , he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor . |
| 11 | Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean . |
| 12 | Covering fire kept his head down as somewhere flankers began their move that would finally pin him down . |
| 13 | He has a hatred of the police that will never leave him . |
| 14 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 15 | An omission which might have and may still cost him serious casualties to personnel north of the Qattara depression . |
| 16 | Whenever Annunciata came to fetch the child she was firm : he must go at once or otherwise his mother would be displeased and might not allow him to come at all . |
| 17 | A slightly more critical eye might have felt that the very fact that they were publicly proclaiming the existence of such a rumour could not advantage Profumo in any way and might easily damage him . |
| 18 | Twice , she opened her mouth to yell Pascoe 's name , but reasoned that to call him would n't bring him any faster , and might well distract him . |
| 19 | I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone . |
| 20 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 21 | Jack liked him but he did n't love him yet and could n't call him dad . |
| 22 | His face was twitching ; he tried to stop it , and failed ; looked for Rogers and could n't see him ; lost track of position and direction and why he was up there at all . |
| 23 | She clung to him hard , she loved him and could never leave him . |
| 24 | Yet the last in the little series of stories about the ark would have recalled to their minds the story of chapter 4 , and would have reminded them that though they were irrevocably , for better for worse , for richer for poorer , the people of God , they did not have God in their pocket , and could never keep him there . |
| 25 | Ruth looked at Adam and could hardly recognize him . |
| 26 | Swimming was one thing , going for a drink was something else entirely , and would probably give him all sorts of ideas . |
| 27 | It was Sunday , and Yanto had enjoyed the casual breakfast with his Mother , something he rarely had time for during the working week Their chat during breakfast had revealed to him that his Mother had enjoyed the previous Friday evening out with Sid Watkins and would probably see him again . |
| 28 | that choked the air and would n't let him eat |
| 29 | At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him . |
| 30 | He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her . |