Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 2 | Jessamy had known straight away that nothing would ever throw her off balance , that she would deal with life 's disasters and crises in a calm , dispassionate way , finally resolving them to her own satisfaction . |
| 3 | But I knew that nothing would ever discourage him ; he 'd never give up wanting to be a director , and he 'd never be any good . |
| 4 | She wondered now , in cold blood , just how she had found the courage to undertake the terrifying trip along that narrow ledge and told herself that nothing would ever induce her to go near it again . |
| 5 | It was just that nothing would ever seem quite the same again . |
| 6 | He would ask young Alex for the ring , and see that it was put well on Mary 's finger , he would wish them to be happy and fruitful and true to one another and that nothing would ever part them . |
| 7 | I thought when he died that nothing could ever hurt me so much — now I 'm not so sure . |
| 8 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 9 | To actually meet a man she did n't find boring , a man who could make her feel , and to know that nothing could ever come of it ? |
| 10 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 11 | Human beings have made so much progress since the beginnings of civilization , says Godwin , that nothing can now hinder the ultimate goal — the perfectibility of man . |
| 12 | She was already determined that nothing should ever frighten her . |
| 13 | My hope is that everyone will fully co-operate for the best beginning and development of this ‘ Day ’ . ’ |
| 14 | The question then arises , ‘ Would this fear be there if the individual concerned knew for absolute certainty that no-one will ever know that he is guilty ? ’ . |
| 15 | Because it had features so distracting and so inexplicable that no-one could simply explain them away ? |
| 16 | For reasons that no-one can yet explain , teetotal Leslie 's Rolls-Royce careered off the M5 motorway , mounted an embankment and flipped onto its roof . |
| 17 | Learn a party piece and practise it till you can do it perfectly ( ie a series of jokes , a juggling/conjuring trick , a puzzle that no-one can ever solve ) . |
| 18 | This is strictly a fictitious place that no-one can actually occupy ( only god ! ) . |
| 19 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 20 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
| 21 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 22 | — it gives out with some mess that I might normally eat but now it sort of blows away and there 's a whole muddle of emotion in my … |
| 23 | imply that I might soon have funds . ’ |
| 24 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 25 | ‘ Has n't it occurred to you , Skeeter , that I might not want to ? |
| 26 | ‘ But did it not occur to that massive conceit of yours that I might not want to make love to you ? ’ |
| 27 | Some like the Sandvik Sandplate have introduced me to products that I might not have otherwise tried . |
| 28 | He says that I might not need to get it right ? |
| 29 | He says that I might not need to get it , right , because , if , he can only tell half my blood . |
| 30 | ‘ My wife thinks I might be risking all my credibility by coming back and that I might not get another job in football . |