Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [that] he [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was absurd that she had n't guessed straightaway and absurd that he should be standing in a telephone booth somewhere , talking about a queue forming . |
| 2 | Hope was trembling and afraid that he might give too much away . |
| 3 | He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God . |
| 4 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
| 5 | His relations gave him up , deploring his French expedition and the revolutionary sympathies it so clearly implied , and despairing that he would ever take the opportunities available to him for making a career in the Church or the law . |
| 6 | Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council . |
| 7 | Her flesh was so creamy-white and fine that he could trace the blue veins under it . |
| 8 | If you ask me , he 's one of those chaps whose marriage was so close and idyllic that he 'll never get over his wife 's death : he 's just passing the time as usefully as he can . |
| 9 | I was sad and angry that he should want to place a bolt and go so radically against the grain ; sympathetic with Dave 's strong conviction ; peeved that my own route — Centrefold — had been usurped . |
| 10 | He thought it possible that he would and probable that he would not . |
| 11 | She was amazed to realise now just how detailed her dream of him had been and annoyed that he could make her feel so uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to last night . |
| 12 | He had made sure that Oliver was so lonely and miserable that he would be desperate for any friends , however criminal . |
| 13 | He was anxious about travelling , and worried that he might miss his train or enter by accident the wrong one : this was a fear that seems to have lingered since his youth when , as he said , " I found a variety of calamities to worry about . |
| 14 | I behaved with the arrogance of a lady , and when one of them got a little — fresh ? — I pretended to be insulted and amazed that he could compromise his uniform and position that way . |
| 15 | They started back for him , slightly embarrassed and anxious that he might decide to make a break for it but there was no need . |
| 16 | The boy appeared fretful and disappointed that he could n't join the others on their excursions . |
| 17 | Failing that , he assured all and sundry that he 'd get the Duchess the best darn-tootin' ‘ deal ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Please tell me what 's going on , Fernando , ’ she implored , her eyes so wide and bright that he could n't refuse her — surely ? |
| 19 | He admired a point which Stead had made about Polynesians and Christianity , but worried that he could not think of a Christian anthropologist . |