Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | On her other flank , would the USSR ever say of China what Germany once said of Russia : today I can afford to go to war , tomorrow I may not have that luxury ? |
2 | ‘ Hummingbird , ’ the President said , ‘ I must not see that robot animal . |
3 | Erm , I should also say that bit about some of us were even gods , erm that also is erm there are some options there on translation erm you could also say men who were different and particular , that is we were and erm particular humans and we were gods . |
4 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
5 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
6 | I should n't eat that kind of food ; yet other people can . |
7 | Mm there 's no reason why I should n't get that deposit back . |
8 | I should now clarify that statement by rephrasing it : I adopted the only strategy open to me in order to preserve any sort of identity , however precarious , and in order to believe in myself as an individual being , separate from both the family and the school . |
9 | tell me about taking bearings , what do you do , let's give you an example , of some bearings to take , erm , and then you can tell me what you 're doing , so there 's a point there , and we 'll call that erm , P , just to be awkward , now let's say what we 'll do , this is what we 'll d , this is a typical problem in fact , erm , I 'll even draw that line on for you to start with , yeah , here 's the problem , a ship is sailing due North , okay , and when it 's at the point of A it takes a bearing on the lighthouse , so the lighthouse is somewhere , do n't know where it is , but bearing of L from A is forty five degrees , and the bearing of L from B , which is when the ship has sailed on a lot further |
10 | I 'll just switch that television off and you might pay some attention . |
11 | Yeah , I 'll just move that chair from out the front |
12 | I 'll just close that door for a minute , because my |
13 | I 'll also get that confirmation letter off to you as quickly as possible . |
14 | And I 'll not put that prescription in till |
15 | I 'll not have that snigger … any snigger on my property . |
16 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
17 | I 'll never forget that night in Seville … ‘ |
18 | ‘ I 'll never forget that night in Lisbon ! ’ |
19 | I 'll never forget that address . |
20 | I 'll never forget that engine ! |
21 | I 'll never forget that sight . |
22 | ( ‘ Do you remember that Dracula when your fang got stuck in the girl 's bra ? ’ ; or ‘ I 'll never forget that girl who had hysterics during that human sacrifice ’ ; or ‘ Do you remember that take as the Werewolf when you forgot your line and said ‘ Bow-Wow ’ ? ’ |
23 | Gray said : ‘ I 'll never forget that goal — no matter what happens in the rest of my career . ’ |
24 | Oh darling , I 'll never forget that day when we drove in , in , into the heart of the rolling hills . |
25 | ‘ I 'll never forget that day Portugal went 3-0 down to North Korea in the '66 World Cup , and he pulled them round single-handed with four goals . |
26 | ‘ I 'll never forget that day at Birkdale , ’ recalled Payne , whose victory lifts him close to Ryder Cup recognition this year . |
27 | Remember also , the pitfalls for children of ‘ tickly ’ yarns ( I hate that jumper , it tickles ) , of necks being too tight ( I 'll never wear that thing again ) when ears have almost been severed off at bedtime ! |
28 | ‘ I 'll never ferget that night when we got the news she 'd bin drowned . ’ |
29 | It looks like I 'll never live that fiasco down . ) |
30 | And there was a funny silence and Dylan said that he 'd bet I could n't do that scream like that with a cigarette in my mouth and I shook off the centuries , stopped staring , smiled a little , noted that he had indeed monumentally screamed with a cigarette in his mouth and went stunned back to my crossword . ’ |