Example sentences of "that he [verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen looked down at her hands , then admitted reluctantly , ‘ If you must know — he told Jean he likes Lucy , and that he hopes she will never leave this place . |
| 2 | " I remember that year Jimmy telling us that we had black players in South Africa , that they were reasonably good and that he thought they should have the chance to become members , " Bland explained . |
| 3 | His grin suggested that he thought I 'd trade in my TI notebook for some new whizz-bang offering . |
| 4 | All I know is that he thought you would be pleasantly surprised . ’ |
| 5 | Garbett said that he thought it would be right to go to London , for the sake of the Church ; that he longed for him to come to York , for the sake of himself , he wanted Ramsey as his successor . |
| 6 | Ghorbanifar told Ledeen that he thought it would be much better to ‘ leave the hostages aside ’ . |
| 7 | If Vincent had rejected a place on the scheme , then it was certain that he thought it would fail . |
| 8 | Of the remaining seven , three were imprisoned before they could contact the Council , two were afraid that they might be recognised walking into the Council 's offices , one had a ‘ habit so big ’ that he thought it would be a waste of time , and one had never heard of the service . |
| 9 | What had happened was that Syl had , one evening , flushed with wine , remarked that he thought it would be a good idea if we got married . |
| 10 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 11 | However , Reichel himself claimed that he did not know the true reason for his dismissal , saying that he thought it might be due to disagreements over scientific policy . |
| 12 | Asked for his views on the future of the offensive , the Crown Prince said , however , that he thought it should continue . |
| 13 | At first he gave the somewhat fatuous explanation that he thought he would find it easier to ride his bicycle without his testicle ( the other testicle was small due to atrophy ) . |
| 14 | Erm , we are today , going to do the Black Sheep of the Family , erm , because erm , erm , does n't feel that he he 's up to doing the one that he thought he would do this week . |
| 15 | In his office the manager said that he thought he might have a part going , and then looked at Arthur for a long time . |
| 16 | Remembering my conversations with him at the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976 , it was clear that he wanted fresh fields to conquer , that he thought he had more than proved himself as a racing driver and that he thought he could , with no great difficulty , follow a Bruce McLaren , for instance , and make his own way in cars of his own . |
| 17 | To Dennis 's in the sense that he thought he could act as team-boss without regard for Niki ; to Niki 's in that he thought his personal world outweighed Dennis 's and the team 's . |
| 18 | Characteristically , he explained that he thought he could ‘ handle ’ that sort of problem . |
| 19 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 20 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 21 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 22 | we used to go every year be go round to erm for a bonfire but the old boy was saying that he said they ca n't afford it next year . |
| 23 | tongued and grooved or , or something pine for the kitchen wall , do it , pay it , forget it right , so , I mean I do n't know what wood I mean we 'd have , we 'd have to see it , but I said to him look I said something 's got ta be done , so I said to him shall we get Gary or somebody similar to do some Artexing in here and he said well with the coal fire and all that he said it 'll , it 'll get dirty |
| 24 | ‘ They say that he said he would never come again . |
| 25 | On July 3 Brooke refused to describe the talks as having broken down , saying that he hoped they could be revived in the autumn . |
| 26 | In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches . |
| 27 | Fagin described the hanging in terrifying detail , and said that he hoped he would never have to tell the police about Oliver — and see Oliver with a rope around his neck . |
| 28 | IN HIS speech to the House of Commons debate on the Draft Appropriation No 2 ( Northern Ireland ) Order , in July , DUP leader , the Rev. Ian Paisley welcomed the appointment of Sir John Wheeler as NIO Security Minister adding that he hoped he would bring the benefit of his experience in prisons to bear . |
| 29 | When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken ! |
| 30 | On the first anniversary of the return to civilian rule President Shehu Shagari vigorously condemned party bickering in the papers and said that he hoped it would end . |