Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was forced to pay more attention to lessons in science and history at Varndean , purely so that I might better understand my other , shadowier tutelage . |
| 2 | ‘ Because my family were lawyers and self-employed , I 've always had the feeling that I would rather hold my future in my own hands than have it in somebody else 's . |
| 3 | He did say before he went that I would never see my son again . |
| 4 | ‘ From our very first meeting he has always told me that he would never do anything to put the Soviet Union 's security in danger — and he knows that I would never endanger our security . |
| 5 | I keep on thinking that I can even smell her perfume . |
| 6 | At the moment I find that I can just afford my fortnightly twenty-minute flights , but in eighteen months time , when I reach the age of seventy , I wonder if I shall be able to afford £130 per year for the ‘ privilege ’ of flying ? |
| 7 | I 'm getting so expert with my chopsticks now that I can almost eat my soup with them — actually , that 's not so silly as it sounds , as the soup often contains large lumps of meat and veg . |
| 8 | Right now I think my number one priority is to prove that I can actually do my job , ’ Lindsey said tautly . |
| 9 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 10 | Incidentally , these images of traces sometimes persisted into my dreams , appearing in the sky above the action of the dream , giving me the impression that I could actually monitor my own sleep stages while dreaming . |
| 11 | But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around ( it 's very flexible you know ) ; even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together . |
| 12 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |
| 13 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 14 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 15 | You still — God knows why — wish to imagine that someone will inadvertently examine your underwear after the car crash of sexual congress . |
| 16 | This means that someone must urgently bring his case to the attention of the Attorney General and ask him to look at it . |
| 17 | When he eventually introduced himself , she politely told him that she would rather pay her own bill and had enough money to do so . |
| 18 | The same circumstances required that Franca should sleep downstairs ; Franca had herself , promptly forestalling embarrassment , simplified the rearrangement by announcing that she would now occupy her boudoir ; and letting Jack and Alison assent silently , and without having to murmur ‘ please ’ or ‘ thank you ’ . |
| 19 | When , in time , Mariot announced that she would now seek her couch , and the men rose to stoop their way out of the ingle-neuk , Agnes remained sitting . |
| 20 | Celia had already stressed that she would never countenance her husband at the birth . |
| 21 | Jezrael fought to fold the anger away , tuck it down so deep inside her that she would never feel its corrosion again — she hoped . |
| 22 | But as the days went on the truth became less difficult to live with than it had threatened to be , and she knew that she would never leave her husband because she , too , was to blame . |
| 23 | Days , and nights of tears and recriminations followed until he finally understood that she would never abort their child . |
| 24 | Although she quickly did all the right things : alerting the police , the coastguard and Dr Forman , Harriet Tremayne knew that she would never see her daughter again . |
| 25 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 26 | The woman knew he meant every word he said , but he was counting on the fact that she would never convince her husband of it . |
| 27 | The shock of all of this is so great that she might well lose her health . |
| 28 | Mrs Reynolds will need to be involved in this process in order to help relieve her anxieties and so that she can also support her husband . |
| 29 | Mother is frowning and her hand is shaking so that she can hardly eat her desert , and I 've done that . |
| 30 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |