Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him considerable work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or contractor with the company in administration , but all of these will be among the factors relevant to be taken into consideration ( post , pp. 862H — 863A , 864C ) . |
| 2 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others . |
| 3 | No court can or should give him direction on such a matter . |
| 4 | No court can or should give him direction upon such a matter . |
| 5 | These various substantives evoke a state or quality which disposes the support to perform an action ( willingness , desire , impudence , ability , etc. ) , an action he performs which prevents or could prevent him from realizing it ( hesitation , refusal , reluctance , etc. ) , something he needs in order to realize it ( right , permission ) , a circumstance in which he finds himself which favours something 's occurrence ( chance , occasion ) , etc. — all of which evoke a situation existing before the infinitive event , and so imply a reference to a prior position of the support . |
| 6 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 7 | If Merton 's ‘ partner ’ adopted a character , he would refuse to accept it , or would decide he 's rather they were something completely different . |
| 8 | And let's say he went from there to there . |
| 9 | Mrs Wood is pleased to see the back of the children 's father , and may denigrate him in conversation with or overheard by John ( possible inference from lines 21 and 22 ) . |
| 10 | The official receiver must give at least twenty-one days ' notice of the meeting to the bankrupt and may require him to attend the meeting ( r 6.84 ) |
| 11 | A change in the tax rules affecting pensions was shortly followed by a job with the Department of Environment 's Property Services Agency , a post which carries him through to March and may see him stay until he is 70 . |
| 12 | But the Home Secretary 's fraudulent attempt to imply that they were all destined for Heathrow does him no credit and should cause him shame . |
| 13 | But the fear that nagged MI6 's mind was that the Russians had captured Crabb alive and might produce him to tell the full story . |
| 14 | The marshal 's favoured plan — Susan gathered — was that she should B into Daine 's Dream , as herself but with a few improvements and then rip the sub-universe apart until she found the fugitive and could tase him awake . |
| 15 | And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’ |
| 16 | He knew nearly every one , and where his memory faltered , his sennachie behind him knew them and could prompt him . |
| 17 | The sport has given him all this , and could take him from it in an instant . |
| 18 | He 'd gone on saying it until people complained and the landlord was forced to tell him that such talk amounted to the spreading of gloom and despondency ; it was almost as bad as careless talk and would land him in the Bridewell if the police got to hear . |
| 19 | Such an event would represent the parting of the ways between Mr Gorbachev and the Slav masses , and would lead him almost inexorably down the road towards a full-scale assault on glasnost and civil liberties . |
| 20 | I was an utter martinette about his pronunciation ( he did n't know when I did n't know ) and would make him happily furious insisting that he repeat words over and over again until I was content . |
| 21 | In the words of Roger of Howden , " the young King , of his own accord and under no compulsion , laying his hands on the Holy Gospels in the presence of a large crowd of clerks and laymen , swore that from that day onward and for the rest of his life he would be loyal to King Henry , his father and his lord , and would serve him faithfully . |
| 22 | Corbett felt refreshed though still wary , pleased that the previous day 's rainclouds had now disappeared and hoping that the Lord Bruce was still in Leith and would grant him an audience . |
| 23 | ‘ . Eliot 's thoughts on civilization would be developed in America , where his longing for the scenes of his youth would also be satisfied and would enable him to return to London to minister , witch-doctor-like , to his civilization , to purify the dialect of his adopted tribe . |
| 24 | Ted felt this field would be very useful and would enable him to extend his holding just sufficient to give him in his words , ‘ that bit extra ’ . |
| 25 | They knew him at McCausland 's , and would treat him reverentially . |
| 26 | Several leading Democrats reacted to this by claiming that , were Thornburgh to remain in office , it would raise the appearance of a conflict of interest and would allow him to circumvent some of the restrictions on the raising of electoral funds . |
| 27 | Dodds is Scotland 's second leading scorer behind Ally McCoist and Roker manager Malcolm Crosby said : ‘ I 'm very interested and would take him tomorrow if I could . |
| 28 | They said they had a knife and would attack him if he did n't hand over his own vehicle . |
| 29 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 30 | Even when his ankle was much improved , the fracture knitting itself together most satisfactorily , she still went and would find him hobbling around the conservatory which was raw and bright , being still too new for the vines and jasmines to have masked its bare white ribs . |