Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
2 | Anyway I got so carried away that I ca n't remember the game in detail so this report is crap , all I can remember is the Elland Road wall of noise and the fury of the Leeds attack once Batty was on the pitch . |
3 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
4 | ‘ But the ground 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
5 | I knew that I would probably lose the case if I did , and lose everything , but for my own personal esteem I needed to actually make that stand . ’ |
6 | This summer , I concluded that the latter was better than the former and I can give my hon. Friend no assurance that I would not reach the same conclusion again . |
7 | I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again . |
8 | I did manage to lose half a stone ( 7lb/3kg ) , but I was so hungry all the time that I would not keep the diet up for longer than a month . |
9 | I turned away from my crew to demonstrate that I would not discuss the Crowninshield charter any further . |
10 | I just know that I would n't sacrifice the experiences I 've had on drugs for anything . ’ |
11 | That I would n't pursue the issues of nineteen eighty six . |
12 | ‘ Steve McQueen was evidently a bit worried that I would n't get the accent right and , just before my big scene , he came up to me and spoke to me about it . |
13 | It is for the same reasons that I would now support the denationalization of British Rail . |
14 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |
15 | ‘ Well , I said to Andy Johns , the producer , that I would really like the harmonica to sound like Levee Breaks . |
16 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
17 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
18 | Erm he come in about that so we wrote a letter saying that I wo n't do the job for ninety pound , but I 'll stick to the original |
19 | Erm , I hope that I wo n't detain the council for too long , I 'm sure that this motion er wo n't be controversial . |
20 | I hope that I shall not embarrass the Minister if I commend him again for his imaginative efforts and the time that he has spent abroad trying to develop inward investment . |
21 | Please tell the King that I shall not show the photograph to anybody . |
22 | They echoed each phrase as he continued : ‘ … that I will never mention the existence of any such letter to anyone else — now , or at any time in the future , so help me , God . ’ |
23 | I do hope and pray that I will never have the need to use it . |
24 | One objection , however , is so obvious that I can not leave the matter there . |
25 | I now admit that I can not tell the difference — but to hell with it , the sauce is so good ! |
26 | I regret that I can not quote the Minister exactly , but I am sure that he will tell me if my paraphrase is inaccurate . |
27 | Before any fluttering expectations begin to arise in the minds or breasts — I do not mind which it is — of Opposition Members , I should say that I can not advise the House to write the two clauses into the Bill , because they deal , for example , with administrative matters such as a once-off requirement for a report to be made to Parliament — new clause 2 — and the keeping of a custody record — new clause 10 — that should not be set down in primary legislation . |
28 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
29 | I will reaffirm that I can not condone the use of cannabis , nor for that matter daily watching more than 5 hours of TV . |
30 | Your letter makes so much sense that I can not understand the recommendations of so many manufacturers to regularly fully discharge NiCad batteries . |