Example sentences of "he [verb] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was dressed in the garb of a typical construct worker , so that anybody he passed would take him for such . |
| 2 | Following his split with the SWP James and his small band of adherents joined with another small group , the Workers ' Party , and with the aid his close collaborators , Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya , he set about the task of examining the Hegelian dialectic and Marxist doctrine , which he believed would lead him to a fuller understanding of the Soviet Union , and in particular , Stalinism . |
| 3 | Sergius III had an illegitimate son whom he arranged should succeed him as pope . |
| 4 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 5 | It was curiously sexual this feeling , exactly the way he had once or twice felt with a girl he was mad to make love to and who he thought would let him but was not quite sure , not absolutely sure . |
| 6 | ( 29–30 September 1777 ) Having decided that he would like to remain in Munich Mozart reported a plan to Leopold which he thought might enable him to do so . |
| 7 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 8 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 9 | Calm balmed him : a sense of peace which he knew would encompass him on a return from a devout , loyal , and sensible killing in the future . |
| 10 | that he injected Royan with a substance he knew would harm him , in the presence of the press , and failed to given him adequate medical attention . |
| 11 | She had also wondered if seeing the places he went might make her feel closer to him , but it had n't . |
| 12 | Nothing he did could hurt her now . |
| 13 | And nothing he did could force her to look at him . |
| 14 | And he is currently working on a kingfisher which he estimates will take him 12 months to complete . |
| 15 | Hugh will be accompanied by a 30-foot safety boat , and he is making the journey , which he estimates will take him about ten hours , in a standard sea kayak , and he is due in around 4.30 this afternoon . |
| 16 | In a letter to employees George thanked everyone for their understanding and sympathy which he said would help him and his family cope with the terrible tragedy . |
| 17 | And he said erm well he said we can ta take into consideration you 've four kids he said can extend it for twenty eight days |
| 18 | These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one . |
| 19 | The Commander , having decided the personnel he hoped might join him , contacted several , but needed official approval and Lord Mountbatten 's support in recruiting Lieutenant Neville McHarg RN , a conscientious navigator and Lieut Norman Teacher RN to the teams . |
| 20 | The old dictator , General Augusto Pinochet , called a referendum that he hoped would confirm him in power , and was baffled when he lost it . |
| 21 | Dr Dering declined this contemptible compensation , and risked crippling legal costs on a trial which he hoped would win him heavy damages . |