Example sentences of "[verb] [that] he would " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup . |
| 2 | I remember , at the close of the fifties , going to a hairdresser and praying that he would n't talk . |
| 3 | The beam of the torch wavered as he did so , and she cringed , praying that he would not notice . |
| 4 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 5 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 6 | She felt like that fish caught by the curlew , one part of her praying that he would spit her out again , the other , perversely , longing for him to swallow her up . |
| 7 | He spent much time today and yesterday denying that he would increase from 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 8 | While denying that he would be merely a stopgap premier , Goh nevertheless stated in December 1989 that " it is obvious that Lee Hsien Loong will be after me " . |
| 9 | How he expected his career to develop when he contracted this marriage is unclear , but he can hardly have supposed that he would be summoned home by the King when Archbishop Warham died , in order to succeed him as Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 10 | He adds that he would be surprised if industry , already hit by the recession , ‘ was not anxious about the prospect of accounting changes , the general effect of which will reduce the opportunities for carrying costs below the line ’ . |
| 11 | Little did the bargeman know that he would be instrumental in bringing to justice the most hated woman of her time . |
| 12 | That way , a business man making an investment would know that he would get his money back within four years . |
| 13 | She did n't doubt that he would find her . |
| 14 | He said that he and two other members of staff tried to restrain Mr Dodd who shouted that he would kill Mr Maguire . |
| 15 | He then shouted that he would burn the place down . ’ |
| 16 | He promised that He would build his church . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs Jonesy apologised to Dad for their son 's behaviour and promised that he would get ‘ what 's comin' to 'im when we get 'ome ’ . |
| 18 | But Mr Chirac promised that he would give his full support to the government , expressing criticism only in private to Mr Balladur . |
| 19 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 20 | In his acceptance speech Göncz made particular mention of leading opponents of the Soviet intervention of 1956 as his friends and mentors and promised that he would " serve the nation 's independence , free thought , the free word , the idea of free faith in a homeland , the defence of social justice which is fulfilled in human rights … [ and ] Hungarian democracy " . |
| 21 | He denied opposition claims that he was a hardliner , however , and promised that he would take " a rational and reasonable approach " towards the current unrest , rather than employing " harsh measures " . |
| 22 | On Oct. 16 the Romanian National Assembly approved by 324 votes to seven the new Council of Ministers proposed by Prime Minister-designate Theodor Stolojan , who undertook to accelerate reforms and promised that he would continue his political neutrality and would not stand in the forthcoming ( 1992 ) elections . |
| 23 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
| 26 | Nigel had got her measure enough by now to know that he would never be allowed to insist on anything , so he approached the subject carefully . |
| 27 | I knew him well enough by now to know that he would never presume to tell me what to do . |
| 28 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
| 29 | And although she was n't stupid enough to know that he would n't catch up with her eventually , when his role as host was over , if not before , she had high hopes that she could escape before that eventuality . |
| 30 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |