Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] that [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was always the fear that a chain would snap or that I would step too near . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell her that I do exist and that I 'll see her one day . ’ |
| 3 | Mr. Wilson : I fully understand that the Minister hopes that one bid will emerge and perhaps that would be the best answer , but if one bid does not emerge , will the Minister maintain the right to dictate that either only one bid will emerge or that he will condemn those involved in an alternative bid to effective disqualification ? |
| 4 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 5 | They gave themselves to each other naturally , confident that she would take and hold as he would thrust and that she would give to let him thrust again — long and deep , longer and deeper , longer and deeper still — till both their hearts were thudding and each was lost in the act . |
| 6 | The judge then decided that the case should not stop and that he would call a police officer who was the remaining witness for the Crown . |
| 7 | Whether she is consciously twisting logic , or just , poor girl , confused , I 'm not sure , but at the end it 's quite clear ‘ So dear I love them that with him all deaths I could endure , without him live no life ’ , that she 's got into a world of fantasy because the one thing that is of course not in question is that Adam should die and that she should live on , which appears to be what she 's referring to here . |
| 8 | Even when it was clear that this would n't happen and that it would have to accumulate a special fund , especially for the future cost of ‘ decommissioning ’ the stations , the Board 's accounts showed a relatively small amount being set aside . |
| 9 | You knew he could not pay and that we would have to . ’ |
| 10 | I explained that I could n't actually prescribe and that he 'd need to see you . |
| 11 | This strategy implies that we should have no preconceived ideas about the research we should support and that we should concentrate on deriving the criteria against which we should assess proposals which , on the balance of probabilities might stand the best chance of success . |
| 12 | ‘ If I do get bad feelings I know they wo n't last long and that I will cope ’ |
| 13 | But after our day out when we 'd had such a good time it seemed as though you might care and that we could have a chance . |