Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [noun] would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cast a quick look towards the bar ; praying that Rune would soon return and save her from his mischievous lover . |
| 2 | In the late 1960s almost all major exporters began to cut back production , apparently believing that surpluses would otherwise become unsustainable . |
| 3 | When he heard of the murder this morning , he was terrified of being questioned , imagining that Vera would somehow get to hear that he 'd spent the night at the Lodge — especially if he was detained . |
| 4 | On March 14 the Lithuanian Supreme Council passed a resolution saying that Lithuanians would no longer be required to serve in the Red Army and that conscripts who deserted would not be held criminally responsible . |
| 5 | He said : ’ I remember milk board and other leaders saying that quotas would only be introduced over their dead bodies . |
| 6 | Which is rather like saying that slum-dwellers would rather live in the slums than anywhere else — there they are in the slums , are n't they ? |
| 7 | You married below yourself , DeVore thought at once , knowing that Sung would never have made Field Supervisor without such a woman to push him from behind . |
| 8 | Theirs was not a loving affair ; although she loved him , Maria refused to show it , knowing that Luke would probably reject any attempt to do so anyway . |
| 9 | Buzz hesitated , knowing that Clare would never discuss this in her presence . |
| 10 | When the army ousted the Rump in October 1659 he and a group of other naval officers then ashore wrote to Monck in Scotland , urging him to accept the coup , arguing that divisions would only play into the hands of the cavaliers . |
| 11 | Instead of hoping that experiments would eventually pile up evidence for some particular formula , he recognized that it was necessary to proceed hypothetico-deductively : to propose a structure for a given substance , then to work out consequences of this and test them . |