Example sentences of "[vb -s] that he [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is no longer any dichotomy of truth and lies that he can manipulate from midway between the audience and the other characters . |
| 2 | His son has gone off to London , and he worries that he may lose touch with him . |
| 3 | If he just wants that he can have it . |
| 4 | Left alone , Edmund is rather amused by the situation : Rather like Iago , in a soliloquy at a similar stage of the action ( Othello , V.i.11–22 ) , Edmund concludes that he will win anyway . |
| 5 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 6 | Anyone who thinks that he can improve on the commitment and effort of British Coal managers reveals how little he knows about the coal industry and coal mining . |
| 7 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 8 | This gentleman thinks that he can bring up a child |
| 9 | I do not know whether he does not understand the measure or whether he thinks that he can discredit the idea by associating it with the poll tax . |
| 10 | he thinks that he can buy I could buy this standing space because I 'm a businessman and I 've got lots of money . |
| 11 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 12 | The tenant covenants that he will do or refrain from doing certain things which undoubtedly touch and concern the land . |
| 13 | The laird of Balfunning wanted a tide waiter 's place for his son , but Buchanan was clearly not prepared to settle for promises , for he ‘ insists that he may see his son 's commision before the election ’ . |
| 14 | In addition , he insists that he should listen to clerical advice , even though the new ruler was as yet a pagan , as his father had been . |
| 15 | But his comments sparked an angry response from Torquay chairman Mike Bateson , who said afterwards : ‘ His ( Kelly 's ) remarks that he could watch four games a week and see 200 such tackles was the most ludicrous statement I have ever heard . |
| 16 | Having used most of it up taking shots of you , he realises that when anything happens that he should cover he 's going to look very foolish with no film in his great big camera . ’ |
| 17 | Jesus says that he would comfort Jerusalem as a mother hen takes chicks under its wings . |
| 18 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 19 | None of them has been met , yet today he says that he would have signed up to a single currency without any opt-out clause . |
| 20 | Beowulf says that he would like to sail for Hrothgar 's land and take up the fight against the monster . |
| 21 | ‘ Er … ’ said Zach thoughtfully , feeling a little stumped for words , ‘ Er , Mr Oakley says that he 'd like to er … converse with you . |
| 22 | Ellin says that he could tell even as a sixteen-year-old that " here was a writer who reduced stories to their absolute essence " and , he adds , the ending of each de Maupassant story is , when you think about it , " as inevitable as doom " . |
| 23 | He says that he can see understand their point of view . |
| 24 | So sure is Berkeley of the ultimate impossibility of this abstraction that he even says that he will let his whole case rest on it . |
| 25 | But farmer Ken Sawkins says that he will lose his livelihood if the biking is stopped . |
| 26 | Mr Brown says that he will consider it only if 500,000 people sign up . |
| 27 | He submits that he can do this , seeing that , as is common ground , the money was originally paid into one of Glasgow 's bank accounts in London , but otherwise he is unable to produce any evidence in support of this contention . |
| 28 | And Larder , who was Goulding 's mentor on the 1990 tour to New Zealand , warns that he must control the wild instincts which keep getting him into hot water . |
| 29 | Similarly , the motorist who discovers that he should pull out the choke button a particular amount so as to get the car to start on a cold morning is also an empiricist . |
| 30 | The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them . |