Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't do any good to let him think he can overrule me either — well , he ca n't really , because I 'm Chief Druid after all . |
| 2 | He was a fool to expect anything other than he got , however : surely only vanity could have made him think he could seduce a mob of Madness fans ? |
| 3 | She 'd be damned if she 'd let him think he could get away with that ! |
| 4 | She professed love for Gentle at intervals , but not with sufficient consistency to make him think he could prise her from her husband , even if he wanted to , which he was by no means certain he did . |
| 5 | And made him think he could trust me . |
| 6 | She knew he was in a position to do what he wished , but what made him think she would enjoy it ? |
| 7 | ‘ That 's why I want him to know he can talk to us . |
| 8 | Perhaps the incapacity of his lieutenants in the Congo made him feel he could rely only on himself . |
| 9 | Somebody will then decide to give an impromptu reply if the best man does n't , which makes him feel he should have spoken . |
| 10 | I shall ride up on the Norton , ’ he told her , and there was a difficult pause in which she waited for him to suggest she should come up to Liverpool in the New Year . |
| 11 | When I meet with the American President in Berlin , I want him to believe he can trust me . ’ |
| 12 | The flash of hope in her eyes made him wish he could report a more substantial discovery than the meagre piece of intelligence he had to contribute . |
| 13 | ‘ And if he is not prepared to fight , then he should say so but there is no point in lying to the people around him saying he can do the job if he really believes he ca n't . ’ |
| 14 | If we ought to had him mate they 'd have thought he 'd come from |
| 15 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 16 | I ca n't worry my husband because he 's not well and I do n't want him to think I 'd make any difference . |
| 17 | So it was kind of him to think you might feel like that , too . ’ |
| 18 | She probably did tell him to go away and stop following her around , but that would n't be a reason for him screaming he 'd kill her . ’ |
| 19 | Fancy him thinking you could get rabbits with that . |
| 20 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 21 | Fancy him thinking he could con her ! |
| 22 | It 's just that sometimes — well , I do n't even know if we have a relationship , and I do n't want him thinking he can take me for granted . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You heard him say I 'd go to England too . |
| 24 | Right , the story 's building up to a sort of crescendo erm the the Sanhedrin was saying he heard him say I will tear down this temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men with our hindsight , with our knowledge of what went on . |
| 25 | I have no doubt that a major influence in forcing him to make what must have been for him a most distasteful and humiliating manoeuvre , was a letter sent by a number of Durham county councillors to a local newspaper in reply to an article penned by Mr Fallon in the previous week 's issue . |
| 26 | It is a chance for him to prove he can make it in the Football League . ’ |
| 27 | I told Ron that whatever decision he made I would support , and he decided that he would … that he would … he would die … |
| 28 | West wins this third Diamond trick with the Queen and all he has left in his hand are 3 Hearts , and whatever card he plays he must give you the last three tricks in that suit . |
| 29 | When they were all sitting cross-legged in the corridor , huddled in their blankets , staring wide-eyed at the two tough looking armed figures he realised they must present , Grant called in one last time to Springfield . |
| 30 | He realised they must have been in the accident . |