Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Tormey one of the ‘ purest ’ instances of representational behaviour is that of an actor who rages on stage as Lear but who could not possibly be expressing his own rage or he would never complete the performance . |
| 2 | Or he would perhaps modify it . |
| 3 | Either Frederick became ill because of their privations , or he may already have been suffering from pneumonia , which was worsened by the hard journey . |
| 4 | The patient might manage to cut up his own food with a combined knife and fork , or he may even learn to cut his food with one hand , alternating cutting and eating using a normal knife and fork . |
| 5 | The person who acts like a chicken or conducts an orchestra for the stage hypnotist may be play acting , or he may genuinely feel that it is the hypnotist , not himself , who is taking responsibility for his actions . |
| 6 | He says that the squeeze on his income under a Labour government may mean that his wife would have to look for work , or he may seriously consider taking his skills abroad . |
| 7 | Durfey may have written the lyrics himself , adding a coded signature to cock a snook at his detractors ( ‘ The Town may da-da-da-m me as a poet , but they sing my songs for all that ’ ) ; or he may conceivably have acted the part himself , for money he appeared to need , and plenty of laughs backstage . |
| 8 | It is very important for the horse to be comfortable in his mouth or he will soon seek evasions of the bit . |
| 9 | Show him who is boss , or he will undoubtedly show you . |
| 10 | Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities . |
| 11 | He could fly around , measuring the pheromonal concentrations , and then orient in the direction where the concentration increased ; or he could simply turn upwind . |
| 12 | ‘ Or he could just have wished to have an excuse for placing men near the chateau to keep us under closer observation . |
| 13 | Or he 'd even come to you . ’ |
| 14 | Or he 'd just tell you ? |
| 15 | He needed to keep the rewards small to maximise his results , or he 'd quickly end up with two bored and sick chimps and no means of persuading them to co-operate . |
| 16 | ‘ The new owner of the Enderley estate is a hard man , or he 'd never have the heart to turn her out , even if he does want her cottage for a gamekeeper . |
| 17 | Francis understood all of this , of course , or he 'd never have done it . |
| 18 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 19 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |
| 20 | If your enemy is good he will realise where your real strength lies , and he 'll probably leave your Goblins alone . |
| 21 | He 's very good and he 'll probably do it for nothing if he can get a couple of hours off . ’ |
| 22 | Mike in the audience and he 'll probably give me a rollicking afterwards , cos I have n't prepared anything about this and I suspect I wo n't be able to speak till the red light . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't worry , if I want him to shut up I 'll give him a dig and he 'll soon get the message ! |
| 24 | Let him match pairs from heap of socks , and he 'll soon learn about colours and sizes . |
| 25 | Unwinding , we sink into the armchair with a coffee cup , and gaze out of the window , and then he 'll see an outline across the road ( now what ? ) , through the fence , through the leaves , and he 'll vainly crane and peer , and tip forward on to his feet . |
| 26 | His hobby is fishing and do-it-yourself things and he 'll just go out and buy the tools and I think , ‘ Oh that money , what I could have done with that money ! ’ |
| 27 | So I will budget and go around the markets and that , and find the best buys and he 'll just go to the best shops because it is convenient . |
| 28 | all the time , and eventually , I 'm not using that , and he 'll just start giving you the answers , and when he does start giving the answers , keep on , let him get a lot right . |
| 29 | and he 'll still call you a crap bastard |
| 30 | And he 'll never know how lucky he 's been . |