Example sentences of "that he [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ebullient , and with a broad grin , Williams early sensed his own powers — at sixteen he told a friend that he would have a fellowship of the University of Wales , an 1851 exhibition , a D.Sc. , and an FRS by his middle thirties . |
| 32 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 33 | The previous Secretary of State — the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , now chairman of the Conservative party — had promised two years ago that he would have a look at SSAs ; that promise , however , came to nothing , as has every other Government promise relating to local administration . |
| 34 | Semenov promised me that he would have a word at the highest level , with Yury Vladimirovich Andropov . |
| 35 | US officials say the Russians are trying to put pressure on President Bush to make last-minute concessions , knowing that he would like a summit to end his presidential term . |
| 36 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 37 | He had been pathetically shy and awkward , and one particularly painful experience had sent him back to his lonely flat with the firm belief that he would die a bachelor . |
| 38 | After a warning from President Lech Walesa on July 3 that he would name a Cabinet himself if a majority government were not immediately forthcoming , eight political parties accelerated their negotiations and proposed Hanna Suchocka as Prime Minister . |
| 39 | He thought that he would catch a train up to London . |
| 40 | In her opinion , it was unlikely that he would get a place at Cedars at such a late stage in the year . |
| 41 | His mother came , but she did not take him away , and his Uncle Charlie told him that if he wrote another letter like that he would get a thrashing , so he stayed and coped . |
| 42 | No , there was no hope of her husband exploding with rage at the thought of leaving her and swearing that he would find a way to remain . |
| 43 | I told Sir Paul that he would find a booklet describing the church in the bookstand . |
| 44 | In a sermon he announced that he would call a synod of European bishops to consider steps to be taken in unifying Europe as a Christian continent . |
| 45 | Amis joined the popular front of rising protest and who , in those days of rebellious literary figures , could have imagined that he would become a knight ? |
| 46 | After all , it was expected that he would become a priest , like James . |
| 47 | She knew where he was , and she knew that he would need a gun . |
| 48 | He was not sure that he would need a weapon , but there was no harm in being prepared . |
| 49 | When it was pointed out that he would need a telescope to see it from there , he replied that being an ex-naval man , he never looked at anything without the use of a telescope . |
| 50 | He said that he would impose a state of emergency if necessary , but did not want to do anything which would have a negative effect on democracy . |
| 51 | But God in his mercy showed them that he would accept a substitute — the death of an animal , perfect and blameless , instead of the offender . |
| 52 | She knew that he would cause a scene on her when he came in if she did not go out to talk to him . |
| 53 | According to Dr O'Toole , Dr Baltimore told her in 1986 that she could write a letter to Cell about it , but that he would publish a rejoinder . |
| 54 | At the end of the Second World War , James Clavell says , he swore that he would put a brick through the window of the first Japanese Embassy to be opened in London . |
| 55 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 56 | Mr Lawrie said the recommendation that he should pay a sum to the council to be fixed by the Scottish Secretary is unreasonable . |
| 57 | As incumbent of Ayrshire 's oldest Earldom , Glencairn was reluctant to agree to Macrae 's suggestion that he should marry a commoner , especially one of such lowly background , but abandoned his scruples when told that Elizabeth 's dowry was to be £45,000 in diamonds and the estate of Ochiltree which Macrae had bought for £25,000 . |
| 58 | Early in the next century , the English Henry I is said to have suggested to his son-in-law , the Emperor Henry V , after the failure of his French campaign in 1124 , that he should levy a tax , evidently to improve his army . |
| 59 | His namesake , Martin , who made his debut in 1979 ( the local joke is that he should acquire a dog-collar like secretary Rev. Mike Vockins , as Sunday is now his normal working day ) , is to get a joint benefit with Damian D'Oliveira next year . |
| 60 | Receiving a recommendation from North before the Tehran trip that he should arrange a meeting with ‘ RR , Shultz and Weinberger ’ , Poindexter tapped back testily : ‘ I do n't want a meeting with RR , Shultz and Weinberger . ’ |