Example sentences of "[pron] that he [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This amiable young man greeted me enthusiastically and informed me that he would be driving me himself , in his motor car which he had brought from Finland . |
| 2 | And it 's never quite fitted for me that he could be so stiff and laconic in Cabinet and yet try and be much more expansive on these set-piece occasions . |
| 3 | I noted what the hon. Gentleman said in his biblical reference ; it occurred to me that he should be a little more careful when talking about St. Paul . |
| 4 | But it does seem so horrible to me that he will be , with them , near them , at the cottage . |
| 5 | They want to help him , and I have to remind them that he might be frightening ( that was the way they had wanted him to be ) so we 'll need to approach him very carefully . |
| 6 | A little later , he met the leaders of the Provisional IRA in Dublin and assured them that he would be delighted if he could cut it down to ten or eight years . |
| 7 | As soon as Edouard Balladur was appointed head of the new conservative government in March , he told them that he would be asking for sacrifices to clean up what he claimed was the worst economic mess France had known since 1945 . |
| 8 | He sat there until his eyelids began to droop , then phoned the switchboard and told them that he would be at his hotel . |
| 9 | Terence Blacker had made a small bet with himself that he would be the first speaker to mention children 's books : he won . |
| 10 | Raskolnikov 's first thought on slinking down the lodging-house stairs is one of surprise at himself that he should be ‘ simultaneously ’ in terror of his landlady and planning a murder . |
| 11 | Pilger , on the other hand , was more interested in Sutton 's production skills and in satisfying himself that he could be entrusted with that side of the paper — not easy with a new start-up and the complexities of the new technology . |
| 12 | But I I of course felt the of giving me something that he would be known by everybody in Wales . |
| 13 | It is , however , something that he will be given by Conservative Members and I am sure that he will want to make the most of it before — sadly — he retires from our midst at the next general election . |
| 14 | At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him . |
| 15 | Before he received any answer , the arresting policeman shut the door , warned him that he would be arrested for obstruction if he persisted and went back to the driver 's seat . |
| 16 | Eventually he found in the Scriptures , which he scanned daily , texts which satisfied him that he might be saved . |
| 17 | Liking Julia as he did , admiring her stringent intelligence , her honesty , the unexpected humility that would never let her give advice unless she was asked for it , and her unfailing reasonableness , it had never occurred to him that he might be falling in love with her . |
| 18 | The court heard that Baillie had asked another man to hide the gun and warned him that he could be the next to be 'blown away' |
| 19 | I thought if I told him that he 'd be bound to make a proper search — not in the house , I do n't mean , I 've looked in the house — but among other solicitors she might have gone to . |
| 20 | One day , a pilot named Flt Lt Mort had a sick navigator and Mac eagerly jumped into the gap , in spite of various people protesting to him that he must be mad to fly with a man who had a name like that . |
| 21 | He helped to make laws , though it never really occurred to him that he should be governed by them . |
| 22 | People laughed , and smiled , and told him that he should be more serious . |
| 23 | It was no shock to him that he should be marketed in his turn . |
| 24 | It was true she 'd avoided him , had gladly left him to Merry , but it had n't occurred to her that he might be aware of that . |
| 25 | As she drove William Fosdyke back to Mondano he assured her that he would be always at her disposal and could guarantee to make her family holiday a success . |
| 26 | Late the following morning he had telephoned to inform her that he would be out of Taiwan for some days as a problem requiring his personal attention had arisen at the commercial recording studio he owned in Singapore . |
| 27 | Barton told her that he would be sitting ringside along with a photographer . |
| 28 | The real problem lay in convincing her that he could be trusted with her secrets . |
| 29 | They had reached the hilly avenues of Lisbon when it occurred to her that he could be worried about how she might behave when the time came for them to part . |
| 30 | Her countrywoman 's upbringing told her that he must be a gamekeeper on the estate owned by the people at Hillmarden Hall — some property developer and his wife , she believed . |