Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh adv] he [modal v] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was then still slightly shy in company , though sharp and confident in other areas and among his equals , like the pool halls where he would hustle for a few dollars . |
| 2 | How dare she , he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page , how dare she enjoy reading books when he could n't ? |
| 3 | He constantly screamed and shouted abuse at his parents and had violent temper tantrums when he would indulge in physical aggression , hitting and punching people and furniture , and screaming at the top of his voice until he got his own way . |
| 4 | There are likely to be plenty of times in the coming months when he 'll want to walk away , because no matter what attitude he starts with , he 'll be affected by the Grendon experience and that can be frightening . |
| 5 | Where such a step-by-step approach is not appropriate , and it does restrict the contractor 's freedom to use his own judgement in areas where he may be better informed than his customer , an approach that divides risk and reward on a reasonably equitable basis between customer and contractor may be a useful option . |
| 6 | A long-time adherent to the general principle that he should look around and see areas where he could help , or stir up some kind of improvement , he had lately become more willing to risk controversy . |
| 7 | He was more interested in pinpointing areas where he could find the most new species . |
| 8 | ‘ Players like Paul Ince and Carlton Palmer are complementing Gascoigne because they are prepared to win the ball and give it to him in areas where he can be the most effective . |
| 9 | This ruling was reviewed , as a point of law , by the Queen 's Bench of the High Court , which decided that a man who publishes a book in circumstances where he must reasonably know that it is obscene commits an offence , even if his motive is pure . |
| 10 | If the patient was not admitted to hospital , or was discharged without having learned to wash himself properly , the community nurse attends to help him to wash , and to teach him and his carers how he can help himself . |
| 11 | He hates days when he ca n't get straight into his workshop . |
| 12 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 13 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 14 | Of course , it had probably been worse in the days when he used to have to hunt alone . |
| 15 | On the days when he used to leave her a note in the morning she knew well enough that there was no good to be hoped for in replying to it . |
| 16 | However , he recognized that the days when he could play the benign ruler , satisfying the grievances of his subjects and punishing guilty lesser officials , were waning — even if he had nothing more positive to put in its place . |
| 17 | The days when he could do it , or would , were now over . |
| 18 | Mr Makepeace , who dreaded public places where he might meet the boys of Burleigh , sat longer than any , pretending to go through the disgracefully scrappy mathematics homework that his classes saw fit to throw his way . |
| 19 | But one of the places where he would feel most at home is the room in which a vital part of the process that brought New Scientist to you last week was carried out . |
| 20 | There are only a few places where he can be , but it is n't until 0500 hours that he is found walking along Unter den Linden , the most famous and beautiful of Berlin 's pre-war streets , having apparently lost contact with his friends . |
| 21 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 22 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 23 | There he knew places where he could get opium — dark , evil places where people bought and sold the beautiful , terrible dreams of opium . |
| 24 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 25 | He used it whereever he could and in some places where he should n't like in the rainwater system . |
| 26 | The woman dropped the credits where he could n't catch them ; the thin plastic chips feathered down through the air and Mijnheer scrabbled after them , his dignity in shreds . |
| 27 | He can only be placed in the lying position for effective treatment purposes when he can balance well enough to be taken through this pattern of movements without increasing his spasticity . |
| 28 | Alongside rich , corrupt and irresistible Sir Jack Falstaff is the young Prince Hal , wandering far from his true royal path , mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying to be a king . |
| 29 | This is how almost all of his days have been spent , casting bait , checking behind him , moving on ; apart from odd nights in hostels where he can get a bath and about thirteen hours of near-coma to catch up , he 's been continuously on the road since the dawn that he stole the car and the cash that has become his fighting fund . |
| 30 | Reuter , who was naturalized in 1857 , energetically expanded and developed his agency , showing a keen appreciation of the value of exclusive news ‘ beats ’ and using new cables whenever he could . |