Example sentences of "that his brother [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his brother Jonna got on better now that Jonna had grown up , but George knew that his brother would always be jealous of him as the elder . |
| 2 | Worried that his brother might be close to a nervous collapse , he refrained from spelling it out bluntly , but what it amounted to was this : Do n't kick the bourgeois while they are still feeding you . |
| 3 | Compare the way that his brother may be part of the " given " starting situation , or part of the allegation in : ( 77 ) Wally says that his brother is an arms dealer Does this imply that there is a possible interpretation of ( 76 ) where red-haired is the " given " and her the item that is not solidly established ? |
| 4 | The extent to which some university appointments were political spoils in the eighteenth century is suggested by the demand made in 1714 by Murray of Cringletie , an administration candidate for the representation of the county of Peebles , who made it a condition of his coming forward that his brother should be given the vacant chair of church history in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Rory thought now that his brother must have exaggerated the story , made it more horrific than it really had been , and he certainly did n't believe that Lachy had run away to sea just so that he could wear an eye-patch and pretend he was a pirate . |