Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] that [modal v] [vb infin] [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 | So , go to a considerable amount of trouble to , first , find the point where your story has to begin , where the first absolutely necessary fact has to be put before the reader , then work equally hard to find a form of words to state it that will catch your reader as firmly as Ruth Rendell catches hers . |
| 3 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
| 4 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |
| 7 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's how it 's used and what people do to get it that can offend our values . |
| 12 | The food she ate made you grow too , so she was very careful to eat only good food and to take nothing that might harm her little baby . |
| 13 | I was aching to say something that would help her . |
| 14 | Ace was uncertain whether or not to say anything that might disturb his concentration more than the noise outside did . |
| 15 | Since her death he had never wanted to touch anything that might remind him of her . |