Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |
| 2 | If the Constitutional Code has revealed Bentham as an important theorist of representative democracy , the volumes to be edited will establish him as a major theorist of constitutional government generally . |
| 3 | But nothing I say will make him post it . |
| 4 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 5 | Following his split with the SWP James and his small band of adherents joined with another small group , the Workers ' Party , and with the aid his close collaborators , Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya , he set about the task of examining the Hegelian dialectic and Marxist doctrine , which he believed would lead him to a fuller understanding of the Soviet Union , and in particular , Stalinism . |
| 6 | If he could convince her that nothing she could say or do would make him change his mind about Carrie , the way would be open for him to prove to Carrie he had enough love for the two of them . |
| 7 | An experimental scientist , on the other hand , arranges matters so that what happens will give him the greatest possible amount of information . |
| 8 | There are also plans to further develop the cereal processing at Girvan — something which Mr Sandy says will occupy him now that his nephew is in place as managing director : ‘ It 'll keep me out of mischief . ’ |
| 9 | As Byrd begins the long rehabilitation process which doctors hope will enable him to regain some movement , former team-mate Al Toon , one of the game 's top wide receivers , sits in retirement after being unable to shake off the effects of the ninth concussion in his eight-year career . |
| 10 | The affirmative he knew would follow would help him in the discussion this evening with the Prince of Wales . |
| 11 | Sergius III had an illegitimate son whom he arranged should succeed him as pope . |
| 12 | The district court of the district in which a person resides or is found may order him to give his testimony or statement or to produce a document or other thing for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal . |
| 13 | In such cases , it was best to say one would go directly and to rush out of the room and hope the substitute finally brought would convince him this was what had been asked for . |
| 14 | What do you think would make him notice us ? ’ |
| 15 | It might be a surprise that she did n't think would displease him . |
| 16 | He was dressed in the garb of a typical construct worker , so that anybody he passed would take him for such . |
| 17 | ( 29–30 September 1777 ) Having decided that he would like to remain in Munich Mozart reported a plan to Leopold which he thought might enable him to do so . |
| 18 | She waited , forcing back tears she thought might irritate him further , watching his implacable shoulders . |
| 19 | But when Clift confided in her about his homosexual tendencies , she referred him to a colleague whom she felt could help him infinitely more than she could . |
| 20 | Not even a plea from his six-year-old granddaughter to let Big Daddy go could free him . |
| 21 | Riven asked , a little afraid of what Bicker would tell him . |
| 22 | Calm balmed him : a sense of peace which he knew would encompass him on a return from a devout , loyal , and sensible killing in the future . |
| 23 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 24 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 25 | that he injected Royan with a substance he knew would harm him , in the presence of the press , and failed to given him adequate medical attention . |
| 26 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 27 | It was curiously sexual this feeling , exactly the way he had once or twice felt with a girl he was mad to make love to and who he thought would let him but was not quite sure , not absolutely sure . |
| 28 | Where tenure was for life only , and not by inheritance , where entry fines were not fixed by custom , it was possible for the lord , perfectly legally , to raise these to a level which a possible heir could not pay , not in the expectation of getting more money , but in the certainty that failure to pay would give him the right to evict . |
| 29 | Britain 's 27-year-old new boxing hero now meets Holyfield or Riddick Bowe in the spring for that title — a clash it is estimated will earn him £4 million . |
| 30 | A flurry of complications ensues : Richard falls for the winsome Anna , though not even love can blind him to the realisation that her poetry is ‘ absolutely bloody awful ’ . |