Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] he [modal v] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mengistu in June welcomed a joint United States-Soviet call for an international peace conference , suggesting that he would accept UN observers to oversee peace talks [ for collapse of talks with EPLF in Kenya in November 1989 see pp. 36886-87 ] . |
| 2 | Are you suggesting that he should replace McAllister because they are the same type of player ? |
| 3 | Deciding that he must marry Elizabeth , the daughter of his dead brother Edward , he woos her mother on her behalf in a scene which repeats the wooing of Lady Anne , his enormous energies finally overcoming all of her well-merited opposition ( IV.iv.199–430 ) . |
| 4 | He held it there , lowered his head , peeped into the room , smiling , wondering if he could see Fi from this angle . |
| 5 | ‘ Every day my husband would leave work wondering if he 'd find Thomas alive . ’ |
| 6 | One was from an astrologer saying that he would find Matthew 's wife for a fee ; another proposed membership of a society for bereaved or deserted spouses ; a third offered the services of ‘ a well-known and respected private inquiry agent , formerly associated with Scotland Yard . ’ |
| 7 | Thus instead of following the traditional linear progression of the allegory — a development towards contemplation based on Jacob 's union with Rachel after his marriage to Leah — Hilton is more interested in emphasising the coexistence of the two wives : In his reference to another facet of the story , that concerning Jacob 's change of name to Israel , allegorised as a man seeing God , Hilton does suggest a progression in contemplation for his pupil saying that he will become Israel , that is , fully contemplative , in the next world , certainly , and possibly even in this if his circumstances change so that he is relieved of worldly responsibility altogether . |
| 8 | They recall the wisdom of Sadat , who chose to seek an armistice in 1973 , saying that he could fight Israel but not the United States as well . |
| 9 | Hawke refused to stand down , however , claiming that he continued to command the support of the country at large and indicating that he would confront Keating in a leadership ballot . |
| 10 | Mrs Whitehouse wrote on behalf of the NVALA to the then Home Secretary , Roy Jenkins , asking if he would declare Thorsen an ‘ undesirable alien ’ , to which they received a negative reply . |
| 11 | She and her boyfriend , Mark Evans are accused of hiring Norman White from Gloucester for £30,000 , intending that he should kill Ivor Stokle and Pauline Leyshon , so that they could collect insurance money on Mr Stokle 's life . |
| 12 | He went through to the Green Room , hoping that he 'd find Alex 's jacket still hanging there , with the gun still cold in its pocket , with all five shots still unfired . |