Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just praying that we can avoid the type of injuries that we got last season . |
| 2 | She felt like that fish caught by the curlew , one part of her praying that he would spit her out again , the other , perversely , longing for him to swallow her up . |
| 3 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 4 | For the moment , Mr Rocard is probably just praying that he can hold on to his seat in the Yvelines . |
| 5 | We talk about London and Grand Isle , and all the while I am praying that he will ask us on his boat . |
| 6 | Joy shrank behind her father , praying that she could disappear altogether . |
| 7 | Please keep praying that I will master the German ways of doing things , that are so different . |
| 8 | Just praying er just praying that it would happen for her . |
| 9 | er just praying er just praying that it would happen for her . |
| 10 | I do n't deserve another chance — but I 'm hoping , praying that you will give me one anyway . ’ |
| 11 | She often seemed to worry that they would appear strange to me and out of key with the age . |
| 12 | From the ascription on the first page of H400D , Te Deum Simple Le feu Roy ayant voulu qu'il ne dura guere plus que sa messe ordinaire ( ‘ Simple Te Deum , the late King having wished that it will last little more than his usual mass ’ ) , we can deduce that this score , or at least this inscription , must be dated between the death of Louis XIV in September 1715 , and that of the composer , in June 1726 . |
| 13 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 14 | remember that just a few weeks ago that you were de , almost denying that we 'd have to do this sort of thing ! |
| 15 | I am not , then , when I claim that the existence of God does not need to be proved , denying that we must show it to be reasonable to believe in God . |
| 16 | He spent much time today and yesterday denying that he would increase from 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 17 | Old Doc Mac was one of the really great forensic scientists — we started together — but there 's no denying that he 'd let the reins slip a bit in recent years . |
| 18 | Marvelling that anyone could say this without a trace of selfconsciousness or humour , Wexford looked her up and down . |
| 19 | Drop it down , in this Pentiford yep , ours is filled with all sorts of gear , for instance decontamination , you know erm after a , a chemical incidence you 've got to clean yourself off without contaminating everybody else , and you can do this within a pod , it 's been so designed that you can walk in one way dirty , and walk out another way clean , and |
| 20 | She had loved the sense of purpose and the freedom and most of the Africans , and she had always supposed that she would stay there all her life , and finally die there , and be buried , like David Livingstone 's wife , under a baobab tree . |
| 21 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 22 | Leila drives , a remarkable performance given that we are so wet and steaming that she must peer through condensation thick enough to carve . |
| 23 | These suggest that we might use unc = 20 , unc = 10 in ( 2.6.1 ) ; we have already used unc = 0 to obtain |
| 24 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 25 | Such scholars suggest that we should analyse pornographic representations as representations , not causes of social behaviour . |
| 26 | I suggest that we should delay submitting this to Number Ten until you have had a chance to draft the actual terms of reference , as you propose . |
| 27 | If you look at the range now available , they suggest that we could use video for these purposes : |
| 28 | This is an important distinction because pluralist models suggest that we can draw conclusions about the influence of different interests only when groups can be observed at work on their behalf in the political process . |
| 29 | However , these same life cycles also suggest that they may have a different nature from the larger ovals . |
| 30 | The symbolic function of the different styles present in the built environment which is the context for everyday action suggest that they might fuel an apparently active and sustained debate between suburban individualism and inner city communalism . |