Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [pron] would [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’
2 Its just that I thought you would n't come here any more … not after last night . ’
3 The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop .
4 I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel .
5 Then there was the women 's clothes shop at Number 133 with its dresses in the window that I felt I would never be able to afford .
6 And so miserable that she felt she would never drag herself out of this pit of misery .
7 I glimpsed what she had written — nothing extraordinary except that she hoped she would soon find deliverance from her troubles .
8 Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home .
9 Lee suddenly felt so sad that she thought she would never move again .
10 The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them .
11 As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated .
12 She was ‘ extremely upset ’ and shouted that she knew they would not believe her and left the workshop .
13 Fran shook her head , easier now that she knew they would n't be there alone .
14 It had been a marvellous wedding party and it was followed by a wedding night that she knew she would never forget .
15 ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it .
16 It was all there , the passion and the glory and inflamed rush of feeling that she knew she would always have for him .
17 She gave a dark scowl , left the room and trudged downstairs , her mood so prickly that she knew it would only need one wrong word from Julius to trigger off her own temper .
18 She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey .
19 She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife .
20 But she added that she feared it would not be possible to impose planning controls below the low-water mark , where the drilling rigs would be established .
21 Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask .
22 Then he continued , ‘ I also remember you saying that you believed you would probably never marry again . ’
23 But I think if you had all the money that you needed there would still be a problem of the public 's attitude .
24 For example , we do n't know whether non-human species get depressed and even if we were sure that they did there would still be a lot of doubt about which behaviours signified depression in an animal .
25 ‘ They say that he said he would never come again .
26 Fagin described the hanging in terrifying detail , and said that he hoped he would never have to tell the police about Oliver — and see Oliver with a rope around his neck .
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