Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 She felt that nothing could destroy it now .
2 His Beyond The Fringe was so innovative that nothing could follow it .
3 The service also maintains that nothing can beat it for warmth , dependability and value for money .
4 When the grand collapse starts , it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it .
5 They hung it to an almond tree in the square by its ankles so that everyone could see it , and when it began to rot they burned it in a bonfire , for they could not determine whether its bastard nature was that of an animal to be thrown in the river or a human being to be buried …
6 Somehow it always righted itself and reached the front , where new hands seized it and raised it high so that everyone could see it .
7 It is so simple that everyone should understand it .
8 OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’
9 ‘ I had asked my mother one evening to cut my cheese entire , so that I might toast it , ’ he told Tom Poole :
10 As I screwed up my eyes against the dazzle , trying to see the creature so that I might describe it to Crispin , it vanished .
11 That does not mean that I would discard it as an instrument of statutory interpretation even were I empowered to do so .
12 Even if it landed on time , I would have the four-hour journey to Hull and it was unlikely that I would make it to the funeral .
13 She has always had this dream that I would make it to university and she will be devastated if I do n't continue , but the way I am feeling now , I do n't want to .
14 But she knew that in the last resort that if he did win that I would do it but he 's he 's paid off now .
15 You know that I would do it properly for if I had to .
16 Quite clearly , to the shame of local and central government , the homelessness crisis has been allowed to get to such a level that I would describe it as a national disgrace . ’
17 He said he hoped that I would publish it ‘ as I know that people in general do n't understand the long term effects of child sexual abuse ’ .
18 I had said that I would find it easier on my own and she had been hurt , for normal mothers and daughters went together on this expedition , lunching in a department store and discussing the newly acquired contents of the carrier bags that lay at their feet .
19 All I know is that I 'll regret it all my life if I do n't do this now . ’
20 ‘ As your agent , I should advise you against it — my cut will be so minute that I 'll lose it through a hole in my pocket .
21 Thank you chairman , I think that I 'll take it easy until the chamber empty and so .
22 four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then
23 Are you not afraid , my lord , that I shall use it upon my own occasions ? which may not always be yours ?
24 This is the first and perhaps the last time that I shall desire it .
25 Tell her that I shall keep it until I am an old man .
26 As such , I will realize that I must do it , whether I wish to or not .
27 Now I see , he wrote , that I must abandon it as I have abandoned everything else .
28 Indeed it was one of the most shocking stories of police corruption and legal incompetence I had ever read , and believing that I had the ability to rectify it , I decided , whatever my other commitments , that I must bring it to public notice as soon as possible .
29 I see now the relentless laying down of guilt , and I feel a faint surprise that I must interpret it that way .
30 I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it
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