Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he proposed that I should marry him , |
| 2 | Ianthe promised that she should make her a summer dress and with this managed to get rid of her . |
| 3 | He promised that He would build his church . |
| 4 | On Oct. 16 the Romanian National Assembly approved by 324 votes to seven the new Council of Ministers proposed by Prime Minister-designate Theodor Stolojan , who undertook to accelerate reforms and promised that he would continue his political neutrality and would not stand in the forthcoming ( 1992 ) elections . |
| 5 | But Mr Chirac promised that he would give his full support to the government , expressing criticism only in private to Mr Balladur . |
| 6 | I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up . |
| 7 | I pointed out that people liked to have something to sit on but promised that I 'd leave him plenty of scope for pacing , which was the way he did his thinking . |
| 8 | We soon became fast friends , and the brothers joked that we should take him with us on our journey . |
| 9 | I doubted that I would find one in time . |
| 10 | Hope had written an evasive reply which he would frank and give to George Wood to post for him but he doubted that he could deter him for much longer . |
| 11 | After a closer inspection of the young man , I doubted that he could help anyone . |
| 12 | Ruth doubted that anything would dim her stepmother 's exuberance for long . |
| 13 | She blushed guiltily as she realised he had refused a sweet , opting just for coffee , but then , she doubted that anything could test his willpower and not lose . |
| 14 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 15 | Einstein found that he could extend his equation in only one way , by adding a term so that where A is a universal constant called the cosmological constant . |
| 16 | ‘ My own kind , ’ she replied , and getting ready to put a few questions from her list , she paused to smile — and found that he could find his questions faster . |
| 17 | ‘ Craark ! ’ it said , and to Mildred 's delight , she found that she could understand what the creature meant . |
| 18 | The three countries agreed that they would withdraw their co-operation even if the Warsaw Treaty summit now went ahead . |
| 19 | Erm what I have in mind to do my Lord , is to open the case now for you to indicate the scope of erm and will you then know , agreed that we would invite you to adjourn that for some time to enable you do some reading of the witness statement and expert 's reports because of course they are long and that would take considerable amount of with your Lordship is able to familiarise himself with the matter which is contained therein . |
| 20 | When we talked we agreed that I should send you a copy of the Resource Book for Teachers on CALL . |
| 21 | It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions . |
| 22 | Certainly I was asked about this er well before the er E I P er and we agreed that there w Well certainly I agreed that I could see nothing wrong with that since it is a cl closed research project , and nothing will be divulged at all er publicly . |
| 23 | All that knew McMurdo agreed that he 'd end his days on a hangman 's rope . |
| 24 | MMC recommended that we should revalue our land and buildings at least once every five years . |
| 25 | He was glad , for he realised that he would need her to direct him now . |
| 26 | Thinking back Rostov realised that he could remember nothing after the moment when he had operated the lock control and the door had hissed aside . |
| 27 | As soon as Lydia saw him she realised that she could have her picnic without putting her wicked plan into operation . |
| 28 | Belatedly Folly realised that she should stop her . |
| 29 | I realised that I could have her full attention as long as I caught her interest , and I could only do this by telling the truth , for she could no more be bothered with the niceties of drawing-room small-talk than could a fox . |
| 30 | Broomhead had at first considered giving the woman a salutation from his vast treasury of filthy language when she approached him , but he realised that it might damage his rather good reputation . |