Example sentences of "to [pron] [that] he [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 2 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 3 | I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement . |
| 4 | It never occurred to me that he might turn out even worse , a vain , spineless , ignorant lout with no interest in anything but clothes and television and pop music , who would be rotting in gaol at this very minute if his family had n't come to his rescue . |
| 5 | Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for . |
| 6 | I found out next morning that his boat was in Halfway House , but when I first saw him I had no idea he was a Moila man , and it did n't occur to me that he would know the mooring there . |
| 7 | A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education . |
| 8 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 9 | James says simply that ‘ it was suddenly very important to me that he should live ’ . |
| 10 | It seems to me that he must abandon or reformulate his thesis because , as he says , ‘ it is something that must be understood , as it were , by brain and heart ’ . |
| 11 | Because he was a father and no longer young he confessed to himself that he would prefer the latter . |
| 12 | The audience , through the music , were beginning to laugh , and Busacher , sacrificing one of Lehar 's most romantic and loveliest passages of music to the emergency of the moment , speeded up the orchestra , gave the melody a light-hearted rather than a passionate lilt , and swore to himself that he would murder Gesner in the interval . |
| 13 | By diminishing the outward evidence of his authority almost to the point of invisibility , he demonstrated to the people and perhaps more importantly to himself that he could perform his duties not only without resort to force but without any discernible support at all : like Hugh Clifford 's Sir Philip Hanbury-Erskine choosing to deal with rebellion not as a governor but as ‘ a man ’ , he was effacing not himself but his institutional context . |
| 14 | After a week or two 's good behaviour Nigel began to feel the need to prove to himself that he could pick up a genuine , bona-fide amateur about the same age as Caroline — someone young enough to be his daughter , in other words . |
| 15 | Howard thinks to himself that he must write to his children tonight and tell them that he has seen his first angels . |
| 16 | ‘ Well for one thing , does it sound likely to you that he 'd make up something so complicated ? ’ |
| 17 | She did n't really want him , of course but she simply had to prove to herself that he would prefer her to Sally , given the choice . |
| 18 | All she had was his husky voice as he made love to her , his body against hers , and the chance to pretend to herself that he might love her as he expressed emotion through lovemaking day after day , night after night … |
| 19 | It had not occurred to him that he might seem rather out of place in his present dress . |
| 20 | It had suddenly occurred to him that he might have underestimated Gazzer : he remembered that unexpected defiance , last night , on the Wheel . |
| 21 | Martin Browne had suggested to him that he might like to revise certain scenes for this new production , but Eliot declined the opportunity — he did not want to tamper with the play , because he would have felt compelled to make further and extensive changes . |
| 22 | On the way it had occurred to him that he might find the police at Adam 's . |
| 23 | It never once occurred to him that he might die . |
| 24 | ‘ So this king , ’ wrote Sir Thomas Gray , ‘ led a gay life in jousts and tourneys and entertaining ladies , until the lords who had been disinherited in Scotland for the cause of himself and his predecessors made supplication to him that he would restore to them their inheritances which they had lost on his account and allow them to take their own measures . ’ |
| 25 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Whoever will be my heir , let him be obliged to give , and I entrust to him that he should give , sums of the size which I shall dictate and give . ’ |
| 27 | The thought occurred to him that he should give them some orders , but he could n't think of any . |
| 28 | Therefore I suggest to him that he should give an undertaking to do two things er first that he should do two things . |
| 29 | The failure of the play suggested to him that he should abandon symbolism altogether in favour of realism ; this was a fatal mistake , based , I believe , upon an accidental misreading of the situation . |
| 30 | He had put a Chief Superintendent in charge and suggested to him that he should liaise with the Royalbion security people . |