Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] do it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ought to have done it through the college got it cheaper . |
| 2 | ‘ He may have done it before , and said nothing to me because he knew I would n't approve . |
| 3 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 4 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 5 | ‘ He must have done it . |
| 6 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 7 | Euan Duff , defending , said Blythe , of Vane Terrace , Darlington , had no memory of the theft but accepted he must have done it . |
| 8 | Well he must have done it . |
| 9 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 10 | He might get to do it anyway . |
| 11 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know how he could have done it , but where the hell else could he be ? ’ |
| 13 | He could have done it , Dexter saw suddenly . |
| 14 | ‘ He could have done it beforehand when we met for drinks and everyone 's attention was on Mrs Figgis-Hewett , ’ said Angelina , albeit with a feeling of disloyalty to a fellow female . |
| 15 | But I still do n't see how he could have done it . ’ |
| 16 | I thought , well he could have done it |
| 17 | No , it 's that he , he goes , if I had the other one he could have done it there and then on the computer . |
| 18 | He 'd love to do it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If he was going to do anything , he 'd have done it months ago . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'd have done it willingly had I stopped to ask him , Bonnie , but I did n't . |
| 21 | He 'd have done it for anyone . |
| 22 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects , and then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again in an infinite regress , so he has a problem , basically , about calling beauty itself beautiful . |
| 23 | And then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again , in an infinite regress . |
| 24 | Ask ask him if he 'd like to do it . |
| 25 | And if me Dad was n't home at work , a out at work , he used to have to do it . |
| 26 | He would like to do it , in fact , but not with old Sylvester and Foggerty and all cheering him on . |
| 27 | I had to invoke your sacred name before he would agree to do it . |
| 28 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 29 | Tom would have had to be pushed a lot further before he would have done it . |
| 30 | It 's very tragic but he would have done it for anybody . |