Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could-perhaps should — go back to Ken Hurren tomorrow morning and tell him that there may after all be some question of security involved . |
| 2 | He does n't believe his wife 's 92-year-old grandmother , Wendy ( Maggie Smith ) , when she assures him that he used to be Peter Pan . |
| 3 | I 'll have to tell him that I 'll post the card on to him . |
| 4 | Mr Bruce Napier , a chartered clinical psychologist once in charge of the society 's disciplinary procedures , said : ‘ If you go to see a therapist for an hour a week to talk about your most intimate feelings , it is understandable you may develop more powerful feelings for him than you would for your bank manager or solicitor . ’ |
| 5 | might of thought to ask him if I 'd of seen him , but you know the lad I go in there with Chris ? |
| 6 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 7 | Bingham ca n't take his eyes off Ali ; the still life of his friend , tethered so completely , seems as incomprehensible to him as it would to others who followed the radiated glow of Ali 's invulnerability . |
| 8 | Hate him as she might for his intractability , sheer common sense forced her to agree with him . |
| 9 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 10 | He spoke to him as he would to his own son , undeferentially , as one adult to another . |
| 11 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 12 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 13 | The tax saving to the employee means that he or she can in theory receive a maintained net-of-tax income , while gross salary is reduced . |
| 14 | The sociologist of religion ( usually ) does not just plonk down a whole lot of data and let the reader make what he or she will of it . |
| 15 | Ask a French Basque about the violent activities over the border in Navarre and he or she will in my experience be unsympathetic , not towards separatism as such but towards the sometimes murderous way in which it is being sought . |