Example sentences of "that they [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 2 | He thought that they would stay there , the track giving them visibility and line of fire . |
| 3 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 4 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 5 | But it did n't necessarily mean that they would stay together all the time the they may they may even fall out with one another . |
| 6 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 7 | ‘ Even though we shall not necessarily admit it , ’ said Feradach and Nuadu had seen that they would serve even a bastard scion of the Wolfline before any other creature . |
| 8 | Many of the latter were young , in their twenties , and included ‘ yuppies ’ in City and financial institutions who might not smoke a lot but took the attitude that they would smoke more at work if people pressured them over their habit . |
| 9 | Industrialists sometimes argued that they would generate even more electricity privately if the Boards did not make excessive charges for standby supplies , and this view derived some plausibility from the fact that the share of private generation was lower in Britain than in other European countries . |
| 10 | The plan was that they would meet again in Bordeaux , where Suffolk was soon to go to commandeer a freighter for his scientific booty and machine tools . |
| 11 | Diomedes ' mares differed from mortal horses in that they would feed only on human flesh , a trait encouraged by their master who ordered them to eat any stranger who trespassed in his kingdom . |
| 12 | It seemed unbelievable that they would stand aside and let them leave like this . |
| 13 | He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment . |
| 14 | With the issue of the chair still unresolved , the SDLP representatives withdrew temporarily from meetings on May 21 , saying that they would return once Brooke reached agreement with the Unionists . |
| 15 | For example , in maximum severity cases , defendants often used to ignore claims and hope that they would go away . |
| 16 | Conn McCluskey of the CSJ held out strongly against defying the ban but the DHAC representatives made it clear that they would go ahead in any case , and this seems to have swayed the NICRA members . |
| 17 | The Indo-Chinese ministers warned the ASEAN states that they would do well to accept the reality of Indo-China and offered to sign non-aggression treaties with them on a bilateral basis . |
| 18 | While progressive Labour councils declared their intentions to address the expectations of women , of black people and disabled people , it was by no means clear that they would do so in relation to lesbians and gays . |
| 19 | However , there would be no guarantee that they would do so — they might use the money for additional spending on services . |
| 20 | Since most women did marry , most teenage girls assumed that they would do so and that they would give up work then . |
| 21 | If the citizens of Sheffield needed to go to Walsall , I am sure that they would do so , but they need look only to their own trust to see the remarkable progress already made . |
| 22 | Despite this stance and the pressure from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd to respond positively to de Klerk 's announcement , however , EC Foreign Ministers decided in Brussels on Feb. 4 not to ease sanctions until " legislative action was taken " in South Africa , apparently meaning that they would do so as soon as the legislation was tabled . |
| 23 | These girls had actually been requested to have a conversation in " Jamaican " , and had said that they would do so . |
| 24 | They were not supposed to play a part in managing them , but it soon became clear that they would do so . |
| 25 | It is only fair to add that some lawyers play exactly the opposite role , persuading clients who are itching for a zero sum fight that they would do better to reach a nonzero sum settlement out of court . |
| 26 | The judges also said that they would set aside the orders of Justice Morling that the Tobacco Industry of Australia could never , at any time in the future , replicate the claims contained in the offending sentence . |
| 27 | They decided that they would give as much cash to people in their native Dublin as possible during filming . |
| 28 | He had been frightened somewhere in a tight locked-up place inside him because it seemed impossible that they would land safely , and the final swaying descent had made him ill . |
| 29 | Because they actually allowed the , the nationalists to , to sort of drive a an attack through into villages and take over erm and they , they assumed that they would drive too far erm |
| 30 | I think erm it 's interesting erm to listen to desert island discs the last two weeks that the luxury item chosen has been a piano and people are saying that they would like very often , there are a lot of people who 'd like the opportunity to have learnt a musical instrument . |