Example sentences of "[that] he [vb mod] [vb infin] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , thus , may we infer exactly from Johnson 's remark that he would go two miles out of his way to meet Monboddo ? |
| 2 | ‘ The captain was only a human being , ’ she recalled , ‘ and it was inevitable that he would choose one woman rather than another . ’ |
| 3 | It 's bad enough that he should get two things wrong about what is perhaps one of the best known poems in the English language . |
| 4 | It is , nevertheless , pretty easy for a solicitor to transfer to the Bar : the most onerous requirement is that he must spend six months in pupillage . |
| 5 | ‘ I bet my friend , who commands the 4th Battalion of the Presidential Guard , that he could deploy 50 men and that none of them would lay hands on you . |
| 6 | His chair was pulled close to the stove so that he could prop one elbow against the chimney as he studied the pages of his newspaper . |
| 7 | But his comments sparked an angry response from Torquay chairman Mike Bateson , who said afterwards : ‘ His ( Kelly 's ) remarks that he could watch four games a week and see 200 such tackles was the most ludicrous statement I have ever heard . |
| 8 | ‘ Dez ’ , a local young man in business on his own as ‘ Dez 's Car Valeting Service ’ , threw down a challenge that he could wash 40 cars in eight hours . |
| 9 | There was a flash and a deep roar , followed by utter silence … a silence so profound that the Collector was convinced that he could hear two parakeets quarrelling in a tamarind fifty yards away . |
| 10 | George Alcock knows the sky so well that he can identify 30000 stars by memory , and can identify any newcomer at a glance . |