Example sentences of "that the french [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first stages of the French Revolution seemed to be more obviously under reasonable management and it was assumed that the French would set up some sort of parliamentary government under the control of gentlemen . |
| 2 | He could not wait to begin such a triumph , and prayed that the French would offer him the chance of glory before the arrival of any British reinforcements . |
| 3 | Then , satisfied that the French would check their advance till they were certain no picquet line waited in ambush , he stared westwards towards the clouds and let out a long heavy breath . |
| 4 | The Poles had nurtured the hope that the French would restore the old Polish state with Danzig attached as before , but Napoleon had other ideas . |
| 5 | Sharpe prayed that the French would go on waiting , and that the British troops who were marching desperately to reinforce the outnumbered defenders at Quatre Bras reached the crossroads in time . |
| 6 | Success in any great enterprise brought with it the danger of complacency , the danger that the French would surrender to their demons of fragmentation and mediocrity . |
| 7 | The Prince , momentarily forgetting his orders for Sharpe to change into Dutch uniform , dominated the luncheon conversation as he eagerly expressed his wish that the French would attack before the Duke returned from his meeting with the Prussians , for then the Prince could defeat the enemy with only the help of his faithful Dutch troops . |
| 8 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 9 | It was young and shy Nadine on duty , so I got a large portion of chicken in white wine sauce with rice ( how is it that the French can cook rice that never sticks ? ) and a bottle of Pils for next to nothing . |
| 10 | Erbani , Lorieux and Carminati in the pack are no strangers to the international arena with 75 caps between them , but Fouroux and his assistant coach Daniel Dubroca hope that the French will show willingness and enthusiasm for battle and put behind them the inept and inexplicable performance witnessed at Strasbourg . |
| 11 | Having decided for themselves that the problem lay in the lack of will and determination on the part of the Indo-Chinese to join whole-heartedly with the French in resisting communism , the US had to obtain assurances from the French that a programme of French government will be developed ; national armies will be organized ; France will despatch sufficient additional armed forces to Indo-China to insure that the restoration of peace and internal security will be accomplished in accordance with the timetable of the overall military plan for Indo-China ( which made it sound more like a military parade than a war and that the French will eliminate their policy of colonialism . |
| 12 | An opinion poll suggests that the French will vote against the Maastricht Treaty on closer European ties . |
| 13 | In such conditions , concentrated fire from the archers on the wings wrought such havoc that the French could provide but little resistance to those English who set upon them . |
| 14 | Instead he played off the resentment of the ‘ old court ’ at their humiliations and Charles IV 's frantic appeals that the French should save Godoy from the vengeance of his enemies against Ferdinand 's craving for French backing . |
| 15 | Churchill was bitterly opposed to the continuation of the French mandate , but when the Maronite President Beshara al-Khoury and the Sunni Prime Minister Riad Solh also insisted that the French must leave , they were summarily arrested by the French and imprisoned in a castle in the village of Rashaya in the Arkoub region of south-eastern Lebanon . |