Example sentences of "[pron] that [modal v] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're quite certain you said nothing that might make him suspect ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And nothing that can do him any good , either . ’ |
| 3 | Tom Scotland flew 62 ops from Italy with a Pathfinder squadron ( 614 ) ; his autobiography is a story of his search for truth , for something that would enable him to make sense out of all the destruction and chaos that was a part of wartime life . |
| 4 | The chief executive of State of Israel Bonds , Meyir Rosenne , says that he expects the issue to sell out in two weeks , something that would take him ten weeks in normal times . |
| 5 | Something that would establish him as a Writer : script-writer , poet , lyricist for a rock band , novelist , playwright … it did n't matter . |
| 6 | There was no real way of keeping him away from Irish friends … unless of course , he were to have an accident too — something that would keep him at home for several months preferably . |
| 7 | What she needed was a weapon of some sort , something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise . |
| 8 | The case of the ‘ pinocheques ’ is not the only case of apparent corruption that has come to light since the general left power , though it is the one that may touch him directly . |
| 9 | Yes , to give him the chance to find the right one , the one that would stir him in such a way that he felt he could n't do without her . |
| 10 | Still prefers to work by himself — a trait of which he is aware , but one that could make him retreat into a bubble when he most needs help . |
| 11 | His first impulse was to throw it away , to rid himself of anything that might link him with Maidstone and Maidstone 's death . |
| 12 | Since her death he had never wanted to touch anything that might remind him of her . |
| 13 | Exorcising ghosts , no memories , it all has to be cleansed of anything that might remind him , no shadows of personality to be left behind like a coat on a hook , no toothbrush in a glass like a withered flower . |
| 14 | Do n't do or say anything that might upset him . ’ |
| 15 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 16 | Anything that would give him his bearings again . |
| 17 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 18 | There were nights when , hearing him start at three or four in the morning , she would have welcomed anything that would let him stop and rest-paregoric , a sugar-tit , any of those wicked things . |
| 19 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |