Example sentences of "[noun prp] that he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Utterson promised Doctor Jekyll that he would help Hyde after/ unless … |
| 32 | It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry . |
| 33 | Cherry ( who succeeded Coleman as Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon on Coleman 's death , thus blighting the hope of assistant professor Sewell that he might follow Coleman in that post ) that Coleman was ‘ the greatest enemy that the profession has ever had in its highest ranks ’ . |
| 34 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 35 | This sequence of events is already prefigured in a claim made by Schiller that he used to conceive his own poetry in and through a " musical mood " . |
| 36 | [ LADY DAVERS indicates to BELVILLE that he should apologise to PAMELA for his outburst . |
| 37 | He was working against time ; he had promised Browne that he would complete the play by the summer , and already Browne had been negotiating with Rudolf Bing , the director of the Edinburgh Festival , to have The Cocktail Party performed as part of that year 's event . |
| 38 | NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — El Salvador 's President , Alfredo Cristiani , announced in a speech to the UN that he would make a proposal for a ceasefire in his country 's 10-year-old civil war at a meeting with FMLN rebels in two weeks ' time . |
| 39 | More material from Dzerszhinsky Street that he must assess . |
| 40 | It was Pybus who had the brilliant idea of putting the thing out to tender and , despite my warnings , thought that no one could match the school 's price of 158 banana chews , free strawberry milkshakes once a week during the season and a promise from Mike Channon that he would play the Virgin Mary in the school nativity play . |
| 41 | The station commander , a well-known Battle of Britain type , suggested that he had wasted more animo on the Luftwaffe that he could have kept for such an occasion as ours . |
| 42 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 43 | Northants ' Rhodesian-born allrounder Kevin Curran has been told by the TCCB that he must wait until Oct 1994 before becoming England-qualified for registration purposes . |
| 44 | Did he attempt to get undertakings from President Yeltsin that he would use his best endeavours to ensure that they resist the temptation to sell that weaponry to unreliable states in the middle east and elsewhere ? |
| 45 | Sheriff Higgings told Arthur that he could do nothing other than give him a custodial sentence . |
| 46 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 47 | Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college . |
| 48 | SINGAPORE ( Reuter ) — The Prime Minister of Singapore , Lee Kuan Yew , confirmed in an interview with the BBC that he would step down and hand over power to his deputy , Goh Chok Tong , by the end of next year . |
| 49 | he told Doctor Lanyon that he could leave the room . |
| 50 | Mr Kinnock 's motions says : ‘ This House , recalling the clear undertakings given by David Montgomery to Mirror staff when he became chief executive of MGN that he would give the group 's editors freedom to edit and not interfere with the editorial and political direction of the papers , deplores the actions which forced the departure of Alastair Campbell … |
| 51 | Who , for instance , suggested to President Kennedy that he should use a Letter of Credit to secure the release of prisoners held on Cuba ? |
| 52 | On June 3 Soviet President Gorbachev , in the United States for a summit meeting with President Bush , warned Israel that he would consider suspending the issuing of exit permits for Soviet Jews if they continued to be settled in the occupied territories . |
| 53 | This was apparently one of only two books which Che Guevara carried with him to Bolivia ( the other being an arithmetic textbook ) , and Che told Neruda that he used to read it to the guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra , and presumably in Bolivia as well ( Neruda : 1974 , p. 439 ) . |
| 54 | The interim parliament condemned him for acting contrary to the peace process , and for a gross violation of basic human rights ; Johnson had given an undertaking to Sawyer that he would desist from carrying out executions , after previous killings of rebels and civilians . |
| 55 | ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 . |
| 56 | In the early stages England had given them a certain amount of help , partly out of sympathy for their Protestant religious beliefs and partly to check the power of Spain — it was this war in the Netherlands , more than the troubles in South America , which convinced Philip that he should try to invade England . |
| 57 | Doubts within the SPD about the choice of Lafontaine , and about his conduct of the campaign , resurfaced notably when a Dutch newspaper in late November cited a comment by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he would lose the election and " deserves it too " . |
| 58 | Danforth 's efforts to draw up a compromise bill followed the approval of a Democrat-sponsored civil rights bill by the House of Representatives and a pledge by Bush that he would veto the measure if it was endorsed by the Senate . |
| 59 | When the Video Library was set up ten years ago by the non-profit-making association , Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques , I suggested to Jean Antoine that he should keep a U-matic video copy . |
| 60 | The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation . |