Example sentences of "[vb pp] that he [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had half expected that he would follow her and continue the argument . |
| 2 | If a man was lucky enough to get a job it was expected that he would use his position to find jobs for others in his family or village . |
| 3 | They went along with the feeling that Tony should have a non-residential supervision order but strongly recommended that he should change his school . |
| 4 | From what Travis had said , she had gathered that he 'd cut his tongue out before he would tell a soul where Rosemary lived . |
| 5 | It was intended that he should manage his father 's sheep ranches in Australia , but in 1886 he was articled to Charles E. Davis [ q.v. ] , city architect of Bath , where he remained until 1889 . |
| 6 | I was irritated that he could imagine I would want to go back to him . |
| 7 | It was decided that he would take me in as an apprentice to old Bill ( Mr Carswell ) . |
| 8 | Ecgfrith 's brother and successor , Aldfrith ( see Appendix , Fig. 6.2 ) , appears to have accepted that he could restore his kingdom only within narrower bounds ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 9 | She took it for granted that he would know who Julian was . |
| 10 | The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow . |
| 11 | Had he really said that he would share her with the whole of Fighter Command , or was that an erotic fantasy born of her own desire ? |
| 12 | Dr Courtney , she told me , had said that he would help her in any way he could . |
| 13 | Of his voice , it was said that he could make himself heard from the harbour mouth to his Aunt Bridget 's kitchen in a full-blown gale ; but for all his thunder and lightning , his thigh-slapping guffaws and crude sense of humour , there was in Harry a man who needed the love of a woman , a man who , having been brought up by an uncle with strictly puritan views , longed for the approval and admiration of his elders . |
| 14 | Socially reclusive , emotionally recessive — it might be asked whether Larkin had any life at all ; the student radicals at Hull who daubed denunciations of him in the university lavatories presumably thought that he should get one . ’ |
| 15 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 16 | Any employee who is told that he must lose his job through no fault of his own is likely to ask , ‘ Why me ? ’ |
| 17 | I can tell you of er of a man who 's been told that he should see his children less |
| 18 | An acquaintance of mine arrived some weeks later to be told that he could have them if he had turned up sooner . |
| 19 | She had forgotten that slip she had made ; she might have known that he would pick her up on it sooner or later . |
| 20 | When the final draft was completed , shortly after midnight in his suite at the Imperial Hotel , it was made known that he would have nothing to say to markets on this occasion . |
| 21 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 22 | Vincent had sworn that he would love her to the grave and beyond . |
| 23 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 24 | He had proved that he could maintain his force in the desert over a considerable length of time , which by air supply could easily be extended . |
| 25 | Terrified that he would guess her wanton reaction to the heart-stopping touch of his hand , Isabel jerked her head away . |
| 26 | When he lifted his hand she shrank back , terrified that he would touch her again , but all he did was push the heavy dark hair back from his forehead , his voice coolly impersonal when he answered , ‘ I always find it useful to make plans . ’ |
| 27 | When he moved to stand in front of her , barring her path , she looked down , terrified that he would read her fear on her face . |
| 28 | Naïvely perhaps , she 'd presumed that he would believe her . |
| 29 | Since Gregory belonged to the senatorial aristocracy , it might have been assumed that he would accept its literary traditions . |
| 30 | Taylor boldly announced that he would begin his second phase as England manager with an adventurous , attacking , entertaining team . |