Example sentences of "[pron] he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , one of Freud 's patients , who invented the term ‘ omnipotence of thought ’ , which Freud uses in his third paper in Totem and Taboo , used to think that if he thought of someone he would then always meet them , or if asked how someone was , he would hear that they had died . |
| 2 | Here he was , a friar , a priest , a man sworn to chastity , feeling twinges of jealousy about someone he could only claim as a friend . |
| 3 | If he wanted to depress himself he could very easily , thinking on this subject , but he was not used to looking too far ahead in this life . |
| 4 | So , if the buyer does , he can not complain of defects which he ought thereby to have discerned . |
| 5 | By s14(3) a person 's knowledge includes knowledge which he might reasonably have been expected to acquire from facts observable and ascertainable by him or from facts ascertainable by him with the help of medical or other appropriate expert advice which it is reasonable for him to seek . |
| 6 | Through the open ceiling panel , which he might easily have climbed out of , had he chosen to number pulling over the desk amongst his previous choice of options , the barrel of a trusty Smith and Wesson was visible , aiming down at the head of his other self . |
| 7 | But it also implies , as my answer to the hon. Member for Sheffield , Attercliffe ( Sir P. Duffy ) stated , Government policy in political , economic and social matters that deprives the terrorist of the support which he might otherwise have enjoyed . |
| 8 | But these identities are no longer lurid alibis towards which he might credibly escape ; they are playthings , alternative lives issued under licence by the celebrated author . |
| 9 | The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went . |
| 10 | He wore an exceedingly white shirt with a butterfly collar , starched to a gloss like glass , and a shoe-string tie which he might never have taken off since his sister got married . |
| 11 | With a little imagination the soft conventionalist could draft some even more abstract proposition everyone does accept , which he might then elaborate in such a way as to validate a proposition of law about snail darters . |
| 12 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen may see a great variety of his performances at this school , which he 'll regularly attend from 2–4 and 6–8 in order to teach . ’ |
| 13 | For example an official may refuse to issue a necessary certificate except upon payment of a fee which exceeds that which he may lawfully exact or an authority may threaten seizure of goods or disconnection of vital supplies if an unlawful demand is not met . |
| 14 | He must , as Ardener demonstrates , seek to sow ‘ semantic grain and grow theoretical crystals ’ which he may well appreciate no one is asking for . |
| 15 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |
| 16 | This is particularly clear in the handwritten attempts of very young children where the adult is obliged to assign each large painstakingly formed letter token to a particular type of letter , which he may then re-interpret in the light of the larger message . |
| 17 | As the months of his NEA tenure lengthened into years , he sometimes reversed his positions , and even his supporters found it difficult to know just which problematic grants he would end up supporting , and which he would finally reject . |
| 18 | The eyes were open and Ewan could see that , no matter how objective he tried to be , something lived in this body , something which he would soon extinguish with his own , vibrant , developed persona . |
| 19 | In particular , he began to harp on the conservative themes that would provide the centrepiece of his campaigns for the governorship of California and which he would eventually carry with him into the White House . |
| 20 | He continued sending her letters in which he would religiously detail the fortunes of The Wedding Present and continually reaffirm his deep love for her . |
| 21 | There was nothing to suggest the reduction in capital was brought about with the deliberate intention to obtain legal aid to which he would otherwise not be elegible . |
| 22 | His pursuit of moral ends did not justify his reckless disregard for truth , and his malice destroyed the privilege to which he would otherwise have been entitled . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) The following classes of cases are usually not subject to the doctrine : ( a ) those which include a restraint which does not involve the convenantor in giving up a freedom which he would otherwise have enjoyed unless the restraint creates a positive duty to do something which restricts his freedom during the period of its operation ; ( b ) those which , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations ; and ( c ) those in which the purpose and nature of the restraint is coterminous with the purpose of the contract . |
| 24 | The defendants argued that : ( a ) The proviso quoted above came within the first test enunciated by Lord Reid in the Esso case ( see p 7 above ) ie that it did not deprive the plaintiff of any freedom which he would otherwise have had ; accordingly that it did not operate as a restraint of trade and therefore that it was effective on the admitted facts to terminate the plaintiff 's entitlement to commission . |
| 25 | The effect of the proviso was that if the plaintiff were to recover post-termination commission he would be required to give up some freedom which he would otherwise have had , namely the freedom to take employment in whichever field he wished . |
| 26 | Ashton broke this all-but-written law and communicated the exotic atmosphere of the dream but there was little to express the passion of love , which he would later convey in such works as A Month in the Country . |
| 27 | In a move for which he would later pay , he called for the persecution of Deng Xiaoping , who was banished from office and attacked as second only to Liu as China 's ‘ leading capitalist roader ’ . |
| 28 | It was not surprising that the initial source of inspiration was the breakdown of his first serious relationship , a subject to which he would later return with regularity . |
| 29 | Once the bus stopped , however , he was immediately up and out , using the ten minutes available to sketch in the ingredients of a scene which he would later work up in a hotel room . |
| 30 | Captain Cook broached the forbidding shores of west New Guinea , and lost several men there in a fight with the Asmat cannibals , under circumstances similar to those in which he would later lose his own life in the Hawaiian Islands . |