Example sentences of "[that] he would [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I prayed that God would protect them , now that I no longer could , and that he would bring them close to him too . |
| 2 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 3 | Somehow she could not help but suspect that he would think it immoral to squeeze extra wages out of his stepfather , only to hoard them beneath the floorboards . |
| 4 | She was clinging to the lifeline of Rourke 's feelings for her , and who could say that he would deny her that refuge ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Coleridge had spent three weeks in Oxford before , on 5 July 1794 , he finally set off on his Welsh expedition , promising Southey that he would rejoin him later to make further plans for settling in America . |