Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] that he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourth Gospel Jesus tells his followers , heart-broken because he is going to leave them , that it is better for them that he should do so : |
| 2 | His head was so full of her that he could think of nothing else . |
| 3 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 4 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 5 | Seius Saturninus , a chief helmsman of the British fleet , left in his will Captain Valerius Maximus as his trustee-heir , and requested of him that he should make over his [ Seius ' ] estate to his son , Seius Oceanus , when he had reached the age of sixteen . |
| 6 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |
| 7 | The Marquess of Lincolnshire , a former Liberal Minister ( as Earl Carrington ) and confidant of Asquith , wrote in his diary on 8 December with emphasis , ‘ The general opinion is that Baldwin has made such a mess of it that he must go at once ’ , and on 18 December , ‘ There is a Chamberlain-Birkenhead intrigue going on backed by the ‘ Daily Mail ’ . ’ |
| 8 | It is clear to all of us that he must have discarded poor Lina … ’ |
| 9 | On our way home I explained to her that if her father discovered she had visited Wuthering Heights , he would perhaps be so angry with me that he would send me away . |
| 10 | He returned to the chateau , furious with himself that he could have allowed people to live in this way . |
| 11 | She waited for Jean , his girlfriend , to go to the Ladies , and then pounced , flirting madly and manoeuvring him into bartering with her that he would buy two whole strips if she would have a dance with him . |
| 12 | I tried to reason with her that he should know about the baby but she refused to call back or write to him . |
| 13 | She felt that the interview was over , and yet his stillness held her still , and the solemnity of his regard filled her with a curious sense of freedom and enlargement , as though she enjoyed the very fashion of intimacy with him that he might have shared with a man and his peer , even with the prince himself . |
| 14 | What would some wily girl see in him that he would respond to ? |
| 15 | She watched him search helplessly for a reply , the hysteria rising within her that he might have ruined her chances of being accepted by her family . |
| 16 | The rain was splashing on the concrete , and the hole in it that he used to pretend was the way to Australia had filled up . |
| 17 | Whatever Lanfranc 's intentions may have been , the result was different from anything that he can have anticipated . |
| 18 | What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look ? |
| 19 | He told the bailiff who came for him that he must shave , and suggested he stepped into his studio where on an easel he was confronted with the half finished Lazarus . |
| 20 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 21 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 22 | I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement . |
| 23 | It never occurred to me that he might turn out even worse , a vain , spineless , ignorant lout with no interest in anything but clothes and television and pop music , who would be rotting in gaol at this very minute if his family had n't come to his rescue . |
| 24 | Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for . |
| 25 | I found out next morning that his boat was in Halfway House , but when I first saw him I had no idea he was a Moila man , and it did n't occur to me that he would know the mooring there . |
| 26 | A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education . |
| 27 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 28 | James says simply that ‘ it was suddenly very important to me that he should live ’ . |
| 29 | It seems to me that he must abandon or reformulate his thesis because , as he says , ‘ it is something that must be understood , as it were , by brain and heart ’ . |
| 30 | Because he was a father and no longer young he confessed to himself that he would prefer the latter . |