Example sentences of "and he [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mere mention of the biting in Anna 's manuscript record of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ variants is enough to pull the reader back into The Possessed , and he ca n't experience the sudden fierce tug of that novel without realizing simultaneously that the whole ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter belongs elsewhere , to a different masterpiece . |
| 2 | So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat ! |
| 3 | ‘ And he ca n't complain to anyone because he would have to admit what made him buy the shares . ’ |
| 4 | They want him to have injections every month — I do n't know if they help or not — but he says they slow him up and make his legs ache and he ca n't think straight . |
| 5 | Bill has no idea how long you have with AIDS , and he ca n't think who to ask . |
| 6 | And he ca n't think too badly of me or he would n't of invited me back this year . |
| 7 | ‘ So has my grandad , ’ said Lindsey , ‘ and he ca n't dance either . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ His mother 's dead and he ca n't stand his father . |
| 9 | He could n't stand your father and he ca n't stand you and the other kids being your father 's children , though he does n't mind you being your mother 's . |
| 10 | Overall assessment : Fair do's , Peter gets a bit garbled and he ca n't handle telly but he 's a thoroughly decent and honest chap . |
| 11 | Well he 's got himself a B M W and he ca n't pay pay his record bill . |
| 12 | because it 's hard to , and he ca n't settle down to it |
| 13 | I 've got a hostage with me and he ca n't stay long , he has an appointment . ’ |
| 14 | If he wo n't help me , then I 'll do it on my own , and he ca n't stop me ! |
| 15 | He 's a midfield player really , because he is very good on the ball , and he ca n't express himself at centre half . |
| 16 | He has to build his own resistance to infections and he ca n't do that if he never meets them . |
| 17 | and he ca n't do it because my dad . |
| 18 | And he ca n't do it now . |
| 19 | There 's only one awake and he ca n't do very much , and I just do n't know what to do with them . |
| 20 | And he ca n't sit quietly and talk to people now . |
| 21 | And he ca n't blame us for singing ‘ You 're Only Here For The Money etc ’ when we travel to Ewood Park . |
| 22 | Malcolm 's got us this singer , we kept saying to each other , and he ca n't sing , what is all this about ? |
| 23 | this little girl runs to the he sees god and he ca n't believe that god looks like Charlton Heston , and you think |
| 24 | The only time Richard snores , snores is if he 's got a cold and he ca n't breathe through his nose . |
| 25 | And he ca n't wait to pit his managerial wits against Albion boss Ossie Ardiles . |
| 26 | And he ca n't wait to start work on a movie version of the bard 's famous play , Much Ado About Nothing . |
| 27 | His beloved 's in Sheffield and he ca n't wait to sell his house ( any takers for a neat little cottage in Cwm y Glo ? ) and join her there . |
| 28 | Tom says he owes his life to Joyce , and he ca n't thank her enough . |
| 29 | and he was saying a month and they 'd laid him off and he ca n't back into Wrexham Hospital ! |
| 30 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |