Example sentences of "[noun] [that] he [modal v] [vb infin] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 2 | He started off by taking Jack Hylton — an old friend of mine and a leading member of the board of TWW — to meet some of the independent television proprietors , and at that stage he suggested to Hylton that he might use me as an intermediary . |
| 3 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 5 | I suppose I half-hoped that he would zap me with extinction the way he had zapped June with orgasm the night before but his horrible middle finger was folded around a reeking cheroot and showed no sign of flexing . |
| 6 | But it will happen … not quite yet but at the point where he will no longer hinder me with the pretence that he would have me stay . |
| 7 | However , I was immediately transferred to Glynn , a technical guy who took my fax number with the promise that he would send me a drawing that morning of the necessary mods . |
| 8 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |