Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If yer miss payin' 'e 'll do the same as 'e did wiv us . |
| 2 | Our Daniel were born a shuffletoppin' an ’ 'e 'll die a shuffletoppin' . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ E's got a warm 'eart , 'e 'll call the doctor in if 'e thinks yer leg 's broke . |
| 4 | Sergeant Joe 'll see yer sprain do n't get worse , 'e 'll get the doctor in if it does . |
| 5 | A more definitive response to him must await the time which will probably arrive when the clergy ordination measure is taken on the Floor of the House . |
| 6 | The thought occurred once again to Henry that someone who was n't him might have a sexual interest in his wife . |
| 7 | It might not matter in the end — Forester fully expected to be traced and caught-but every difficulty and delay that he could strew behind him could make a final difference of hours or even minutes that might determine the distinction between success or failure . |
| 8 | Stevens was one of the most meticulous of film directors and any actor working with him could expect a gruelling time . |
| 9 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 10 | No one who heard him could doubt the strength of his commitment . |
| 11 | Writing to him would do no good , she knew that before that idea could land . |
| 12 | He would chase down green horses and harness-break them , then Mr. Mendez would buy what he wanted and Russell and two White Mountain Apaches who rode for him would deliver the horses to Delgado 's or one of the other relay stations on the way south to Benson . |
| 13 | Choosing him would soften the third-world grumble that the UN was becoming an American puppet . |
| 14 | Les , finally reunited with his beloved dog , was especially moved that no one who had helped to care for him would accept the £50 award . |
| 15 | To really know him would take a lifetime . |
| 16 | It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful . |
| 17 | He was several steps ahead of her all the time and outwitting him would need a genius , and that she was n't . |
| 18 | Losing is becoming a depressing habit and under-pressure Gooch now with 15 one-day innings without a fifty behind him will need no reminding that England have also lost their last five Tests . |
| 19 | ‘ If a driver knows that any attempt to overtake the car ahead of him will risk a fine or disqualification , then he will not try , ’ the Austrian said . |
| 20 | Such a quantity of natural ability can sometimes cause inner confusion and players like him can turn a match on its head sometimes without knowing how it happened or how they did it . |
| 21 | The early life of a child and the attitudes of those around him can have a dramatic effect upon his adult emotional state . |
| 22 | He knew that he ought to see a physician , but was unwilling to do so lest he be told that he was not , after all , cured of syphilis . |
| 23 | He ought to see a vet . ’ |
| 24 | Loath as Nigel was to cut into the flow of praise , he felt he ought to broach the subject of going home . |
| 25 | After the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943 he privately reckoned the chances of a similar German collapse at six to four against ; and he recognised , partly under pressure from Attlee and others on the Labour side , that he ought to appoint a senior Minister to co-ordinate the planning of reconstruction . |
| 26 | He ought to swap the doctors that he has at the Serious Fraud Office for those who decide applications for disability allowance and attendance allowance . |
| 27 | It was to tell the head of state to whom he was accredited that he ought to leave the country . |
| 28 | He ought to take a riding-whip to that wife of his and then bed her over and over again until she 's with child . " |
| 29 | In 1250 it was discovered that the lands which Aubrey , a forester of fee of Whittlewood Forest , held by serjeanty in Northamptonshire , had been alienated in part , and that ‘ the serjeanty of Peter of Minton in Shropshire , for which he ought to keep the forest of Long Mynd and the hays of Bushmoor and Haycrust ’ had been ‘ alienated in part by divers parcels ’ . |
| 30 | Even Mr. Harding , who in ‘ The Last Chronicle of Barset ’ is described as the sweetest gentleman and best Christian ever known in Barchester , ‘ felt that he ought to rebuke the lady ’ . |