Example sentences of "that he [vb mod] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to accept the fact that he might not return to the convent and , sad though it made her , she would often lay her cheek against the rough heather and whisper his name . |
| 2 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 3 | He determined beforehand that he would not mention to Fisher his longing for time to read books . |
| 4 | United chief executive Martin Edwards assured me last week — after the first enquiry for Hirst — that he would not talk to Wednesday again . |
| 5 | The Divisional Court , in holding that the magistrate erred in committing the applicant , also referred to the fact that Price had stated before the magistrate that he would not return to Sweden to give evidence at the trial of the applicant if he was extradited to Sweden . |
| 6 | He had become a political exile in France in October 1990 , and had made public statements to the effect that he would not return to Albania until democracy had been restored there [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 7 | On 6 October the Scottish Sunday Mail revealed in an excellent piece of investigative journalism that , in a draft letter to the Secretary of State for Energy , the Secretary of State for Scotland had made it clear that he would not object to fuel from an Iraqi nuclear reactor , damaged during the Gulf war , being sent to Dounreay for reprocessing . |
| 8 | President Rafsanjani of Iran announces that he would not object to foreign troops forcing Iraq out of Kuwait . |
| 9 | When confronted on the issue by reporters Bush angrily refused " to take any sleazy questions like that " and stated that he would not respond to it " other than to say it is a lie " . |
| 10 | On March 14 President Félix Houphouët-Boigny warned that he would not yield to pressure to release Gbagbo and the other opposition figures . |
| 11 | Taylor had consistently made it known that he would not agree to a ceasefire until Doe had resigned and left the country . |
| 12 | He happily helps the farmer but also has some sympathy with the cuddly pet view , if only to the extent that he would n't want to be responsible for wiping rabbits out — as if he could ! |
| 13 | But even as the thought went through her mind Luce knew with the utmost certainty that he would n't come to her . |
| 14 | A year ago , there was a strong chance that he would n't live to be three . |
| 15 | I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things . |
| 16 | The man dropped the tiny fraction of the cigarette that he could not smoke to the ground , letting the last acrid smoulder of it rise in the air . |
| 17 | Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own . |
| 18 | The truth was that he could not bear to be so close to Chris and yet feel so distant . |
| 19 | The mayor told them that he could not add to what had been said in the statement about the agreement between the three housing authorities . |
| 20 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 21 | Mr MacSharry has insisted that he will not return to Irish politics after his Brussels term ends , but intends to farm in his native Sligo . |
| 22 | He says that he will not go to Maputo until he receives the money that the UN promised to him and to other party leaders to start up their election campaign ; the UN says that it is still waiting for the donors to deliver the money . |
| 23 | Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that he will not agree to binding minimum rates of income tax in Europe , which have been advocated by the Socialist Confederation in Europe and are supported by the Labour party in this country ? |
| 24 | If a surveyor does his work badly it goes without saying that he can not expect to be paid for it , but usually the client will also wish to claim damages as financial compensation . |
| 25 | He admits that he can not appeal to some absolute conception of ‘ objectivity ’ in claiming that some languages ‘ allow their users to approximate to neutral , objective description ’ . |