Example sentences of "[that] he [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask you to break that pledge you made with him so that he may marry me , the mother of his children . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ … entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar , that he may give me the cave of Machpelah , which he owns ; it is at the end of his field . |
| 3 | And he turned toward the East and knelt and said , Holy Mary Mother , and all Saints , pray to God for me , that he may give me strength to destroy all the Pagans , and to win enough from them to requite my friends therewith , and all those who follow and help me . |
| 4 | Before fifteen days are over , if it please God , those tambours shall be laid before you , and shall be sounded for your pleasure , and then they shall be given to the Bishop Don Hieronymo , that he may hang them up in the Church of St. Mary , Mother of God . |
| 5 | ‘ And if you are afraid this man will know of me , that he may learn you have spent the night with me — ’ |
| 6 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
| 7 | Yet , in the context of the long-standing dispute of Aquitaine , Edward III 's claim was strong enough to persuade him that he ought to pursue it , if only as an alternative means of achieving sovereign rule in Aquitaine . |
| 8 | Sir John said placidly : ‘ If that is the case — that he knows something we do n't — I have little doubt that he 'll tell us in the fullness of time . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 10 | I 'm not saying that he will get it wrong or that he 'll lose you the money , but that 's the responsibility of . |
| 11 | There 's never a minute when he 's in the house that he 'll let her out of his sight . ’ |
| 12 | Rob 's assured us that he 'll let you know where in your area you can pick one up so you can wave bye bye to ‘ Syntax error ’ , and say hello to ‘ Now loading please wait ’ ! |
| 13 | Mr and that he 'll see me . |
| 14 | ‘ If things are as you say , then a man can never be sure of his wife ; never be sure that he 'll find her there when he comes home at the end of the day . |
| 15 | The gunman holding children hostage at a school in Paris has broken off negotiations with a threat that he 'll kill them and himself if his demand for twelve million pounds is not met . |
| 16 | He will definitely miss next week 's game but Wilko is hopeful that he 'll have him back for the Chelsea game . |
| 17 | And I made sure I blabbed a bit to her , even contradicting in inessential details some of the earlier relations to the Colonel , so that he might think he was getting better quality intelligence this way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On the arrival day he considered going to meet Maggie in Carrick but he was afraid that he might miss her and decided to go to Boyle . |
| 20 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 21 | A moment 's fear smote her then that he might leave it at just one kiss , and with more daring than she had known she possessed she leaned her lightly clad body against him . |
| 22 | There was always the danger that he might mention it to his father — and that was bound to lead to more trouble . |
| 23 | In a moment he let her go , but only so that he might lift her bodily from the ground . |
| 24 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |
| 25 | He thought that he might do you harm if he allowed it to show . ’ |
| 26 | In order that he might redeem those who are under the law , that he might bring us into his family . |
| 27 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 28 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 29 | I would not want to pre-empt any joyous , or even hopeful , news that he might tell us tonight . |
| 30 | ‘ That he might stop you , ’ said O'Connor , amusement on his face . |