Example sentences of "that he [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the dates that you 've anticipated if Mr comes back by that time we 'll be able to absorb the post , but it 's likely that he may move on from this , because it 's a fairly substantial move up . |
| 2 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 3 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 4 | But Ramsay , concerned at this display of Dunbar 's attitude , decided that he ought to stay on a little longer at Berwick , in Seton 's support . |
| 5 | Bets that he 'll take over as president of Novell may not take into account the short life span of any of Novell 's prior heirs apparent . |
| 6 | People clearly are interested in what Darwin had to say erm and they mind about whether he was right or not , and I think that many people , I dare say many people in this room , have a wish which they may be conscious of and they may not , sometimes quite a strong wish , that he 'll turn out to be wrong . |
| 7 | In fact , I very much doubt that he 'll come back in a party mood . ’ |
| 8 | We do a lot of road work with him to keep him fit , but he 's such a liability ; I 'm always worried that he 'll come down on his knees . |
| 9 | He spent two sleepless nights worrying that he might end up on a murder charge . |
| 10 | Fearing that he might end up excluded , whatever steps were taken next , Edward managed next morning to get a memo through to ‘ C' 's personal assistant , with a promise that it would end up on his desk . |
| 11 | I held my breath , terrified that he might wake up . |
| 12 | It had been suggested ( by Jack ? ) that he might move in with Ludens , an idea which ( although he was genuinely fond of Pat ) Ludens did not fancy . |
| 13 | Friends considered him so depressed during this period that they were even beginning to think the unthinkable — that he might give up and turn his back on society and all its ills , and do what he would have really chosen to do with his life : be a country squire . |
| 14 | He could exhibit such a stolidity in this regard that the Captain more than once suggested that he might drop down the order , ‘ to add ballast to the middle ’ . |
| 15 | Crisp had slowed almost to a trot , but still it seemed that he might hold on . |
| 16 | Is it not an attack upon the integrity of a man to alienate him from those actions which spring from his deep convictions in order that he might fit in with utilitarian calculations ? |
| 17 | Earlier this year , six Romanian party veterans sent him a message full of criticism of his policies ; there was talk that he might step down . |
| 18 | Yet when he says that this change is not deliberate , he raises the fear that he might go back to a Thatcherite policy , if and when he has the chance . |
| 19 | Time passed and the afternoon light began to fade and Creggan was just beginning to think that he might go back to the carrion he had found before the incoming tide took it , when he saw movement from shadows far below , and the opening of great wings . |
| 20 | For some reason Ianthe felt tired by so much talking and was glad when half-past twelve came and John suggested tentatively that he might go out . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 23 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 24 | Mr Adams scotched speculation that he might take up his Belfast West parliamentary seat , and use parliamentary privilege to overcome the broadcasting ban against Sinn Fein . |
| 25 | I was more worried that he might fall over and hurt himself . |
| 26 | Clock that it 's a left-hand drive , and therefore perhaps give a little bit more consideration to that driver and anticipate the fact that he might come out . |
| 27 | Partly on that score , and partly against the possibility that he might come back between now and South Africa in 1995 , the players would want McGeechan as one of the quintet . |
| 28 | She was risking that he might come in ; and she had the disconnected breathless out-of-control feeling that was fatal with Jasper . |
| 29 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 30 | It was tempting to think that he might live down there for ever , occasionally emerging to dodge through the empty quiet streets ; watching for the armed patrols of the faceless men in black . |