Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] that [noun prp] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a term of the contract between them that Jones would procure his wife to grant a mortgage over her separate property to secure £1,000 of the debt . |
| 2 | It sounded exactly like something that India-May might have said . |
| 3 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 4 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 5 | ‘ People have often said to me that Audrey should have an affair . |
| 6 | But tonight her face seemed frozen into its gracious expression , like royalty in a traffic jam , and if she wished to herself that Hilda would make the odd concession so that civil conversation with her could be easier , nothing of this appeared in her manner . |
| 7 | It occurred to him that Newley might have died a perfectly natural death — a heart attack , perhaps , brought on by the blackmail . |
| 8 | Just before five , it occurred to her that Bridget might have forgotten her promise to check Melanie Gandell 's address , and she dialled the number of her college rooms . |
| 9 | It had never occurred to her that Elaine would have been brave enough to do that . |
| 10 | Mr Goldring told the jury of seven men and five women that at the time of the incidents involving the twins , it never occurred to anyone that Allitt might have caused them . |