Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [that] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
2 | In the long run we still want something that will enable us to stop the resistance completely , ’ she said . |
3 | In the wind and rattle sounds I 'd hear her start to cry and put my arm around her and lift her chin and say something that would calm her . |
4 | Say something that will get her … interested . ’ |
5 | ‘ You mean that you do know something that may help them ? ’ |
6 | ‘ There is nothing I can tell you , Officer , ’ said Iris in her stilted French , ‘ but my friend has something that may interest you . ’ |
7 | Fortunately , and by pure chance , I had said nothing that could lead her to assume that we thought that she was travelling with them — as arranged . ’ |
8 | Why do n't you do something that will get you somewhere , Karim ? ’ |
9 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
10 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
11 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
12 | ‘ I still think you 're totally wrong , but I 'd never do anything that could endanger you — or the club . ’ |
13 | Jack Russells are difficult animals to teach to retrieve — I have only had one that would do it properly — but they can be taught to work nets , drive rabbits into nets and to be thoroughly disciplined in all they do . |
14 | I think that the tour around the factory will be quick , but you may see something that will set your mental cogs turning again . |
15 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
16 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
17 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
18 | I hope you 've heard something that 'll make you think , and think positively and perhaps act positively . |
19 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
20 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
21 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
22 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |
23 | I 'd be lucky ter get anybody that could match 'er in the kitchen . |
24 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
25 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
26 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
27 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
28 | ‘ Tom , I might have something that can help you with the Lewis case . ’ |
29 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
30 | Make the best of a bad job and busy yourself doing something that 'll keep you out of the firing line . |