Example sentences of "[vb past] he [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the inquiry , Lord Romsey promised he would spend £9m on urgent restoration work on his estate , but that the income from visitors to Broadlands was insufficient to carry out the renovations . |
| 2 | Mr Coleman promised he would not push for legislation which would severely restrict abortion in Virginia . |
| 3 | John Selwyn Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food When Mr Gummer took over the Ministry of Agriculture , he promised he would put the consumer first . |
| 4 | Brian Rose was brought in for his first home Test and promised he would attack the bowling ; he was as good as his word and made 70 , but 33 from Gatting was the only other contribution as the last seven wickets went for 24 in fifty-two minutes . |
| 5 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 6 | She told Community Care : ‘ He promised he would look after me . |
| 7 | He promised he would , but two weeks passed and he never returned . |
| 8 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 9 | Athelstan promised he would do something to help her and left quietly , the cope still round his shoulders , Crim jumping up and down in front of him all the way back to the church . |
| 10 | Athelstan promised he would do what he could and hoped to see her and her family as soon as possible . |
| 11 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 12 | He promised he would — after he 'd had one last crack at success . ’ |
| 13 | Some bishops , notably those who owed their promotions to James ( such as Thomas Cartwright of Chester and Samuel Parker of Oxford ) , supported the Indulgence , and encouraged their clergy to deliver addresses of thanks for that part of Declaration in which James promised he would continue to protect the Church of England . |
| 14 | And Phil promised he would make as many trips as he could to see the lads in the red and white . |
| 15 | I CAUGHT my boy of 14 sniffing aerosols a year ago and he promised he would never do it again . |
| 16 | And next year 's student , or even next term 's , perhaps , depending on how quick you do it , your conversations , what you 're doing now , once they 're transcribed and put onto disk would be very interesting , because we 'll have a disk from our St Mary 's students , transcribed , because Steve promised he would get them all transcribed . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , this Satanist promised he could make things fly . |
| 18 | Gerry promised he 'd take care , promised to come back to me , but … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Ernest did n't say , but he promised he 'd look in some time soon , so you can ask him yourself . ’ |
| 20 | I threatened to leave , so he promised he 'd change . |
| 21 | ‘ And Ivor promised he 'd come tonight . ’ |
| 22 | Tony promised he 'd give it to me on my wedding day , and I wo n't let you send it back ! ’ |
| 23 | She maintained he should have got the chance to give the facts of ‘ the very complicated case ’ from his own point of view . |
| 24 | Hitch maintained he could stop buses with his head ( and frequently did ) . |
| 25 | LITTLE Christopher Cunliffe was shot in the eye by his dad 's best mate — after the family friend joked he would ‘ quieten him down ’ by pointing an air rifle at him . |
| 26 | BOWLER Vic Macey joked he 'd break a pal 's leg if he hit him for four at a Paignton cricket match — then DID accidentally after the game . |
| 27 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 28 | He understood that Gandhi 's challenge was not primarily to his sanctity but to his power , and once he saw on what ground he might meet his antagonist he , like Gandhi , but with more evident calculation , unhesitatingly employed that sanctity in the service of power . |
| 29 | Robert Converse who was not in this heat reported he could not pull the usual manifold pressure he uses when racing . |
| 30 | He had never been a happy sightseer and until his work was done , until Harry Lawrence 's killer was identified and caught he could n't see himself playing the tourist at the Changing of the Guard , or the Tower of London , even Poets ' Corner which he had longed to see , as a passionate student of English poetry … that would have to wait . |