Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I told 'im 'e was a no-good whoreson an' 'e should n't 'ave wasted my time in the first place , ’ Billy replied , his blue eyes blazing at the memory of it .
2 I do n't know if 'e 'll ever do it but yer never can tell wiv Billy . ’
3 Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married .
4 ‘ We ca n't find 'im , but it 's so deep and 'as such strong currents , 'e ca n't 'ave 'ad a chance . ’
5 'E ca n't 'ave mine , I just ate it , ’ said Ella , ‘ but I got 'alf a sausage left . ’
6 ‘ There y'are , Sergeant Joe , ’ she said , ‘ 'e ca n't slip yer now , only watch 'e do n't wriggle out through the keyhole .
7 ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in. ‘ 'E would n't talk to anyone .
8 ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in. ‘ 'E would n't talk to anyone .
9 'E would n't do anyfing wrong . ’
10 ‘ I 've told yer before , 'e pays less than any ovver firm in Bermondsey an' 'e sacks 'is workers fer the least fing. 'E would n't tolerate the union fer ages an' as soon as any of 'is workers tried ter get the union in they were put off .
11 'E will not want to make love with you , I promise .
12 ‘ 'E did n't say , but 'e wo n't want you nosin' around 'is room-'ere , come back 'ere . ’
13 Anuvver fing is that if we do 'im over 'e wo n't 'ave the strength ter struggle free too soon after we 've gone .
14 I bet 'e wo n't like Mr Cousins lookin' in 'is carpet-bag . ’
15 'E wo n't harm you , ’ said Tom .
16 'E wo n't spend a penny on 'em .
17 John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’
18 A desperate prisoner , knowing perfectly well what is expected of him may well offer to a chaplain or prison visitor any amount of repentance ; he might even undertake a religious conversion .
19 At the other extreme he sometimes pushed his boys into bed with girls in order to make himself suffer , though a part of him may also have enjoyed the proximity or heterosexual life .
20 ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything .
21 ‘ God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life ’ ( John 3.16 ) .
22 and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved .
23 Yet the favours and appointments she showered on him must surely have given Bothwell reason to assume that he could interpret her secret wishes .
24 Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness .
25 She did n't dare look down at Adam 's usual table — seeing him might just finish her off completely .
26 But Walter Machin was just what we went for in those days : we were all daft about him could n't think o' anything else , from morn to night . ’
27 On the way back he pulled up on the side of the road and just said mum and him could n't live together any more . ’
28 He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal .
29 As an adult , this woman came to understand that the fairy tale had helped her greatly in throwing off her dependence on her brother , as it had convinced her that an early dependence on him need not interfere with her later ascendancy .
30 Ah , in the end they fined him a lot of money , and they had him ca n't stop the public , you ca n't do that you ca n't .
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