Example sentences of "that he [vb mod] find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 3 | He had an idea that he would find himself another flat , and he actually called at a number of agencies in the Bayswater area and asked for their lists . |
| 4 | The other was the knowledge , inexplicable and certain , like all knowledge in dreams , that he would find something deadly inside the last box . |
| 5 | But what she hoped was that he would return before breakfast so that he would find her here , crouched lonely and exhausted on the top stair , waiting for him , frightened because he had left her alone . |
| 6 | She did n't doubt that he would find her . |
| 7 | Mr Buchan is also a conoisseur of socialist folk-singing : he made it clear that he would find it hard to set the policy review to traditional music : ‘ I am a primeval socialist . ’ |
| 8 | Secretly Sam vowed that he would find it again if it was the last thing he did . |
| 9 | At another time , He told her that she had conceived again , and when she , fearful that this would interrupt her ‘ contemplation ’ , asked how she should look after the child , Christ replied casually that he would find it a keeper . |
| 10 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 11 | It was thus , when the weight of anxiety about his failed ambitions , his uncertain future , became too heavy that he would find his peace , standing motionless to watch the veined curve of the poised wave , the tumult of crashing foam breaking over his feet , the wide intersecting arches washing over the smooth sand as the wave retreated to leave its tenuous lip of foam . |
| 12 | He told the driver that he would find his own way back . |
| 13 | The to infinitive thus evokes the occurrence of an event as contingent , as something which might not have happened and which in fact was not expected to happen : the closest paraphrase is " that he should find himself alone " . |
| 14 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 15 | and all of , all of the good clean three be twos that he could find them that were season , they had , they , they took it all |
| 16 | Harish then concluded on Dec. 11 that he could find nothing wrong with the settlers ' claims of legal ownership of the properties . |
| 17 | ‘ He said that he could find me work in the theatre . |
| 18 | That he could find her whenever he chose … |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | There was no doubt in his mind that he 'd find her . |
| 21 | Jed 's idea of doing something special was to be allowed to help her out on the estate , almost as if he was afraid that he 'd find himself abandoned if he did n't make himself useful . |
| 22 | I hope that he will find it possible to allow extra ranks to be recruited all the way along the line — not only at the most junior level — to ensure that we do not lose those very able people . |