Example sentences of "the [noun] that [modal v] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's WBO super-middleweight champion Eubank 's ninth world title fight in just 22 months — and there 's to be no let-up in his quest to earn the money that can give him retirement in the next year . |
| 2 | Prom there he was to work up his cover as a rubber man and make the contacts that would get him into Germany . |
| 3 | He enters me as fortress , I can only thank him from my battlements ; I am the pearl the knight must capture to win heaven and the drug that will detain him from his quest . |
| 4 | Good afternoon , Celtic say that Lou Macari is expected in Scotland tomorrow to finalise the deal that will confirm him as their new manager . |
| 5 | The clamour of her heartbeat filled the silence between them , as she struggled to find the words that would send him away forever . |
| 6 | He drove a wide circle out of the car park towards the slip-road that would take him back to the dual carriageway . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's someone in the village that 'll shoot him . ’ |
| 8 | He took advantage of the noisy arrival of Auguste 's staff to beat a judicious retreat , as Auguste hurled imprecations after him , based largely on the fate that would await him should the goose come to any harm as a result of his incursions into the chef 's sovereign territory . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's a good wrestler , a flier , a skier — all the things that might make him an attraction to the Duchess of York . |
| 10 | That same problem is treated in Arguedas 's Deep Rivers , the story of a young boy , Ernesto , who identifies emotionally with the Indians among whom he was brought up and who , on moving to school to receive the education that will equip him to take his place in society , finds himself alienated in the world of the whites . |
| 11 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 12 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 13 | That is the good side of the Texan , the stuff that would make him an asset in countries , such as Britain or France , where the old political order needs a solid whack . |
| 14 | his right hand mimes the cigarette that would give him |
| 15 | Chamoun then attempted to capitalise upon his victory by contemplating a change in the constitution that would allow him a second term as president . |
| 16 | Cleared with the security guards at the desk he went into the lift that would take him down to a depth below the level of the Thames . |
| 17 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |