Example sentences of "[vb past] he [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Community Care : ‘ He promised he would look after me . |
| 2 | ‘ Ernest did n't say , but he promised he 'd look in some time soon , so you can ask him yourself . ’ |
| 3 | Benson declared his availability for this year 's Ireland matches and the Irish selectors deemed he should play for Munster , the weakest of the six inter-pro teams . |
| 4 | Bradl also found he could cope with pressure last season . |
| 5 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 6 | She readily admits that she did so deliberately : ‘ I do n't think I ever really believed he would stay with me unless we had a child . |
| 7 | They believed he would grow by six inches — but Steven added another two for good measure . |
| 8 | She thought his resignation was ‘ inevitable ’ but believed he could return to the Government later . |
| 9 | A young man without the priggishness that the Deputy Under Secretary believed he could identify in all Public School pupils , without the conceit of a Cambridge College . |
| 10 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 11 | He 's something of a hermit by nature and imagined he could cope with it all by himself , apart from getting in labour when necessary . ’ |
| 12 | He imagined he could act like this . |
| 13 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 14 | On his international debut the sweeper Simon looked the genuine article , while the central defender Monzon showed he can compensate for a lack of height with good positioning and excellent timing . |
| 15 | Jed had made his selection ; three toys stood out on their own in the middle of the floor , these being the ones that he reckoned he could do without . |
| 16 | Must have seen his name in the paper and reckoned he 'd pay over the odds to get it back today . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Spot of bother ? ’ he enquired jauntily as Tweed indicated he should sit in the chair beside his desk . |
| 18 | Each visit guaranteed he would leave behind some of his property and after a few weeks we 'd accumulated his record player , eight boxes of books and his Rupert Bear hot-water bottle . |
| 19 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods larger than he contracted to sell and the buyer accepts the whole of the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 21 | She said as much to Bunny , who , after being furnished with certain examples of this refreshing trait , decided he ought to look into the matter . |
| 22 | In the end he decided he would write to Liza , taking full responsibility for what had happened , ask her forgiveness , say how much he loved her and whether he might return , this time in not such a clandestine manner , but with a view to meeting her mother . |
| 23 | His wife , red spots of anger high on her cheeks , gave him a pithy lecture on the rules of hospitality and gentility , so Corbett , like any good mariner facing a squall , decided he would run before the storm . |
| 24 | William , who was already bored by court life in London and still found spoken English hard to follow , decided he must go to Ireland and take command in person . |
| 25 | Charles decided he must talk to her when the opportunity arose . |
| 26 | But the wing commander sadly decided he should return to GD duties . |
| 27 | ‘ We both decided he should play in the reserves on Thursday . |
| 28 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 29 | Laker was a highly charismatic individual ; a self-made man who had built his airplane business on a visionary self-determination and zeal , a refusal to take no for an answer — all qualities which Branson fancied he could sympathise with . |
| 30 | A fellow publisher , Edward Marston , wrote : ‘ In business he was clear-headed , prompt , and decisive , and all who knew him would testify to his absolute straightforwardness and integrity . |