Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not if I know Chopper. 'E 'll most prob'ly get a cab an' then do anuvver runner , ’ Freddie laughed . |
| 2 | I do n't know if 'e 'll ever do it but yer never can tell wiv Billy . ’ |
| 3 | If there 'd 'ave bin a union at Galloway 's 'e might still be there . ’ |
| 4 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 5 | From next season an attacking player who is in line with the last defender when the ball is played up to him may no longer be offside . |
| 6 | A desperate prisoner , knowing perfectly well what is expected of him may well offer to a chaplain or prison visitor any amount of repentance ; he might even undertake a religious conversion . |
| 7 | At the other extreme he sometimes pushed his boys into bed with girls in order to make himself suffer , though a part of him may also have enjoyed the proximity or heterosexual life . |
| 8 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 9 | Yet the favours and appointments she showered on him must surely have given Bothwell reason to assume that he could interpret her secret wishes . |
| 10 | Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness . |
| 11 | The power delegated to him must never be misused for merely personal or even dynastic ends . |
| 12 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |
| 13 | She had her health and strength and the tiny life forming inside her ; she had security and a comfortable home ; then there was Cissie whom she adored , and her own darling son who was so like his father that her joy in him must always be mingled with pain . |
| 14 | Even a swimmer with all his wits about him might well be in trouble down those reaches at this time of year . |
| 15 | She did n't dare look down at Adam 's usual table — seeing him might just finish her off completely . |
| 16 | If the court or the arbitrator should find against the validity of the expulsion , the injured partner should as a matter of common sense be given the opportunity of retiring from the firm on short notice : relations with those party to an attempt to expel him could scarcely be expected to remain harmonious . |
| 17 | you know , so the rebellion against him could just as easily have been because he was raised as an Egyptian or that , that the , you know the between monarchism from the past could also have been . |
| 18 | It was a habit he had that confirmed to Ruth that a romantic relationship with him could never be . |
| 19 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 20 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 21 | Dreams about him would surely be of the nightmare variety ! |
| 22 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 23 | I think to impose any other penalty upon him would merely be to exacerbate the situation . |
| 24 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 25 | Killing him would only make him a martyr . |
| 26 | The sensible part , however , knew that seeing him would only be painful and that if she was to get over this miserable crush she ought to do everything possible to stay away from the man . |
| 27 | ‘ There ai n't no trains out , around that time ; and a gent like him would hardly hang about in a station buffet ! |
| 28 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 29 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 30 | No one who really knew him would ever let him down , she thought . |