Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Ramsay proposed that he should lead the decoy party , under the royal standard , Murray insisted that he himself must do that , as was suitable . |
| 2 | He then shouted that he would burn the place down . ’ |
| 3 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 4 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 5 | Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation . |
| 6 | Low-spirited , disappointed that she must forgo the festivities which always marked the twelfth day of Christmas , she wept copiously and bewailed her ill-fortune to such an extent that it was feared she would increase the severity of the illness . |
| 7 | Attfield and Duck ( 1982 ) found that they could reject the rational expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates when they applied the above model to three-monthly , five-yearly and ten-yearly rates of interest in the UK . |
| 8 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 9 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 10 | We were not inundated with offers for the company from the private sector and our financial advisers doubted whether we could sell the business at all . |
| 11 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 12 | Also he was worried about a model he had arranged to hire through Mauve , and then doubted whether he could pay the price . |
| 13 | The priest made us sit next to him on footstools ; he bent his red face towards us and whispered that we should become the angels of our homes and his . |
| 14 | The Life of Guthlac claims that Guthlac-reputedly appearing after his death in a vision to Aethelbald — prophesied that he would receive the kingdom from the hand of God , who had foreshortened Ceolred 's life for its wickedness , and triumph over his foes ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 49 ) . |
| 15 | With the Congress leadership in jail , the Round Table conference which met in London in November , at Irwin 's initiative , to discuss constitutional advance , came to nothing , and Irwin realized that he must forego the pleasure of seeing the troublemakers in jail for the hope of constitutional development along the lines he had in mind for India . |
| 16 | Charles realized that he must abandon the attempt to re-assert the Forest rights enjoyed by his medieval predecessors . |
| 17 | Despite the unceremonious manner of the suggestion , she agreed that they should give the idea a try . |
| 18 | Kit Everard shared his suspicions with Tom Ingledew , who , though he feared terribly for his son 's life , agreed that they should seize the offensive , in secret , and place all their forces on the qui vive that night , in readiness for battle in the morning . |
| 19 | Culdrose Radar cleared us through the inactive low level danger area and agreed that we would follow the coastline through the combined MATZs . |
| 20 | But after we had heard background reports from social work and other sources , we agreed that we should buy the house back . ’ |
| 21 | As my French was better than Brian 's , we agreed that I would do the talking and that I 'd choose a moment when Mazzin was in one of his camarade moods so that neither of us would be starting from a point of anger . |
| 22 | The pair agreed that he should do the job for two to three years , and would then expect to move to another , more senior position . |
| 23 | He met Frank , liked him and agreed that he should have the job . |
| 24 | Marie and I agreed that she would train the chicks at La Trobe , using exactly the protocol that she herself had modified from Cherkin , which is essentially how we still do it even today , as I described it back in Chapter 2 . |
| 25 | Clearly , he realised that he must uphold the papacy even in the light of Hadrian 's opposition to imperial equality . |
| 26 | They abandoned this idea when they realised that it would mean the end of the NSDAP in Danzig . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , FPI leaders announced that they would challenge the results in court . |
| 28 | Union leaders announced that they would resist the plan , and employers forecast increased redundancies . |
| 29 | Although Lee stated that he did not intend to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections , the new party announced that it would contest the election and that it planned to choose a candidate by the end of October . |
| 30 | Racal Electronics Plc 's problematic data communications equipment business won a big fillip yesterday when British Telecommunications Plc announced that it would make the company its preferred supplier of new data communications equipment in the UK and internationally . |