Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a fool to expect anything other than he got , however : surely only vanity could have made him think he could seduce a mob of Madness fans ? |
| 2 | The flash of hope in her eyes made him wish he could report a more substantial discovery than the meagre piece of intelligence he had to contribute . |
| 3 | He realised he could make a lot of money and a name for himself if he were to act swiftly and produce his maps before Green had time to complete his own . |
| 4 | Borough councillors on the transport committee will consider the proposal on Monday but Mr Docherty said whatever their decision he expected they would take a back seat to Stockton Borough Council which coordinated last year 's meetings . |
| 5 | He thinks you might have a typical jug and basin set of the Twenties to Thirties . |
| 6 | Bradley Star is a very nice horse he 's a classy performer this one , Josh Gifford 's horses are in tremendous form and I was talking to the man who who rides him Deckland Murphy he 's my next door neighbour he thinks he 'll run a big race . |
| 7 | He has found several different types of Anomalocaris ; from studying the whole lot , he thinks he can make a case for saying that it belongs with the arthropods , not out on its own . |
| 8 | Did he know he would die a few years later ? |
| 9 | But on the question of competitive tendering I think mentioned by Mr which he says we should have a different attitude . |
| 10 | This bloke says he wants four or five other vans by the end of next year and he says if you can get your driving lessons all done and passed he says you can take a van out on your own and have someone working under you I 'd , like you work under me . |
| 11 | So now he says he will marry a Russian princess ! |
| 12 | He says — what 's that phrase of his ? — he says he can drop a stone into that particular well and never hear the splash . |
| 13 | He says he can guarantee a student will pass after just 3 weeks cramming . |
| 14 | And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith . |
| 15 | He says it would set a precedent . |
| 16 | He says it could fill a warehouse but he 's not going to . |
| 17 | As the recession deepened [ see below ] , the Hawke government began 1991 some 18 percentage points behind the opposition in opinion polls , raising questions concerning Hawke 's future as leader , particularly as Keating had let it be known at a National Press Club dinner in December that he believed he would make a better Prime Minister than Hawke . |
| 18 | At the time Mick Doyle was coach to a successful Leinster side and he believed he could do a better job than McBride . |
| 19 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 20 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 21 | so that 's English , and I 've got ta get , er he reckons he 'll get a B grade for the er lit , but I was so cheesed off with that erm piece I got today , thirty five and thirty five , one mark off being er an A , he put at the bottom aargh , if only you 'd seen the lousy ending , cos he said if I 'd got the , an extra couple of sentences it er would of been forty eight , forty , so that 's , so annoying , but I 've now got ta write an informal letter , I do n't know how that comes under informal letter |
| 22 | I believe he sensed he could unleash a drive in me that could propel him to recognition . |
| 23 | He fancied he could see a lower section at one end of the piled furniture where a horse might be able to jump the obstruction . |
| 24 | He was not wearing wellingtons , just his working boots , but he decided he must have a look . |
| 25 | For after using his plastic seat in the conventional manner , he thought it would make a nice necklace . |
| 26 | And I ca n't believe Frank would be holding anything back if he thought it could save a young girl 's life . ’ |
| 27 | Originally , he thought he would become a poet and it was ‘ by accident ’ that he became a doctor . |
| 28 | In his office the manager said that he thought he might have a part going , and then looked at Arthur for a long time . |
| 29 | He thought he might write a book about it all . |
| 30 | Ken tried to make friends if he thought he 'd upset a colleague whom he did respect or value . |