Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once .
2 On Tommy Docherty : ‘ I only wish he 'd run off with my wife . ’
3 I just hope he 'll carry on leaving out good players in order to give Robson a game .
4 ‘ He looks fitter , sleeker , and better , ’ Robson said , ‘ and we just hope he can score a goal for us from the wing .
5 ‘ It 's just like he can make command decisions !
6 ‘ I just wish he could have been here to see it . ’
7 ‘ Maybe you 're right ; I just wish he 'd show it a bit more .
8 Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time …
9 His country still insist he must turn out in an African Nations Cup qualifier against South Africa rather than the televised curtain-raiser at the City ground .
10 ‘ I still feel he should have gone to university like the other two .
11 Even alter ninety-nine failures he 'll still be learning and still believe he can win .
12 These omissions and transpositions indicate that Levi could well have kept to himself any plan he may have formed to end his life .
13 And they also know he can shrug off pain , a useful attribute when crashing is almost an inevitability in a six-month GP season .
14 Er now whenever I 've me I honestly wish he would go under a sunlamp and melt !
15 I really think he should have been going to try on a left footed shot from there .
16 A total of 25.8pc now think he would make the best Prime Minister — up 0.8pc from July , while Mr Major 's rating has fallen again , from 17.7pc to 16.1pc .
17 Why does the Lord Chancellor now think he can cut the free limit by over 25% ?
18 Mr Enright asked : ‘ If a principal duty of government is the prevention of crime , has n't this government failed spectacularly and should n't the Prime Minister immediately announce he will set up a Royal Commission to make urgent proposals to prevent this ?
19 Little wonder he can afford to laugh off most of his Colemanballs classics .
20 erm may I suggest Mr if your Lordship would care to sit at ten o'clock and then think he 'll get at eleven fifteen , but really in
21 I sometimes think he must walk around in blinkers . ’
22 For they knew perfectly well that Lothar was waiting for one thing to happen before engaging in battle : one thing which would make him too feel he could win .
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