Example sentences of "[pron] [that] he [modal v] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me that he would donate £5,000 to the fund if I would undertake to invite his little son , then at school in Oxford , to tea on odd occasions , so that I could acquaint him with some of the matters relating to Judaism . |
| 2 | Erm the alchemist is conning people promising them that he 'll turn base metals into gold . |
| 3 | Seymour and Collins had diplomatic immunity ; he let them all depart back to London in their two cars fifteen minutes later , warning them that he would want Quinn , for whom there was no diplomatic status , available for the taking of lengthy statements in London . |
| 4 | The audience , through the music , were beginning to laugh , and Busacher , sacrificing one of Lehar 's most romantic and loveliest passages of music to the emergency of the moment , speeded up the orchestra , gave the melody a light-hearted rather than a passionate lilt , and swore to himself that he would murder Gesner in the interval . |
| 5 | Charles Harvey had spotted her drinking milky Nescafe at half-time , and had told himself that he should make inquiries as to who she was . |
| 6 | The military controller informed him that he could fly IFR above FL 110 , or VFR below FL055 — the Sector Safe Altitude for IFR was 7,300 feet . |
| 7 | The failure of the play suggested to him that he should abandon symbolism altogether in favour of realism ; this was a fatal mistake , based , I believe , upon an accidental misreading of the situation . |
| 8 | She 'd intended to tell him she wanted to open the safety-deposit box , but it occurred to her that he might put obstacles in her way . |