Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not myself think , that Mr ever produces a biased report on anything , and I would think that , erm , on reflection Mr may think that he overstepped the mark there , er I feel that we should , if we can , defer this in it 's entirety , which also includes , the note at the bottom , that would allow Mr to go out and , and , and explore the possibilities . |
| 2 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 3 | The accused must know that he has the prohibited article . |
| 4 | None is stated in the sub-section , but it is assumed that the accused must intend to use the article in the course of or in connection with the burglary , theft or cheat , and he must know that he has the article with him . |
| 5 | Now this is and I must admit when he pulled the trigger then I thought that was going to go right in the back of the net . |
| 6 | Addressing Honderich 's work on its own terms , one must question whether he demonstrates the complete vacuity of Conservative thinking . |
| 7 | In fairness I must add that he indorsed the Lawrence principle . |
| 8 | So er perhaps he 'll wait till he gets the carpets down . |
| 9 | He knew when he went there what might happen if he broke the laws of that country . |
| 10 | Indeed , if his ( undated ) grant to the abbey of Fécamp ( S 949 ) is genuine , one might suppose that he visited the Norman coast at some time , and his generosity to a foundation which had been particularly favoured by the ducal family ( in 1001 Richard II invited the celebrated monastic reformer William of Dijon to be its abbot ) seems most likely to mean that his relations with them were still satisfactory . |
| 11 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 12 | It became important that he should go on believing the lie , for what he could do if he discovered the truth of the situation did n't bear thinking about . |
| 13 | Even through the streaky visor she could see that he had the most mesmerising eyes — laughing eyes — laughing at her . |
| 14 | Constanza seemed all right , and I could see that he thought the world of her . |
| 15 | She hoped he 'd stop when he reached the next supporting strut . |
| 16 | no , but , I mean our can read and he could read when he left the first class , he did really well |
| 17 | He could say that he had the power but no obligation to do so . |
| 18 | In the end it may all depend on the depth of Richard Branson 's pocket , in moments of nostalgia even he may wonder if he sold the wrong business . |
| 19 | If that were the case , then atavistic professional instincts and the terrifying imminence of the first night would ensure that he knew the part by the time they opened . |
| 20 | 1 Calculate the area that a tradesman would use if he estimated the height to be 2 metres and the length to be 6 metres . |
| 21 | Atkins was sent to the bar for drinks which would suggest that he had the lowest standing or rank . |
| 22 | His calculations were very accurate , and he was able to take what seemed to uninitiated Staff Officers big risks , knowing that the shelling would stop before he reached the place being shelled . |
| 23 | What would happen if he took the glass from her hand and kissed her parted lips Harry glimpsed in that instant , prefigured in the alluring darkness of her dress , darker , it seemed , than even the deepest of the shadows around them . |
| 24 | What would happen if he telephoned the police now ? |
| 25 | He would curse when he heard the message , even though tomorrow the string would be doing road work and she was not needed . |
| 26 | He moved slowly , according to Nithard , " wanting to know which way things would go before he crossed the Alps " ; only when it had become clear that plenty of support would be forthcoming did he decide to claim " the whole empire " . |
| 27 | That reference does no more than show that the essential element of dishonesty does not exist if the defendant when he appropriates the property believes that the owner would consent if he knew the circumstances . |
| 28 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 29 | ‘ My brother , thought he would dine before he obeyed the summons , and by this delay the child was dead before he arrived … |
| 30 | ‘ It 's naughty of me , I know , ’ he would say as he put the phone down . |