Example sentences of "thing that [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn entered the tiny shop and bought at random , grabbing anything that was familiar — an odd assortment of things that would sustain her with the least amount of effort , paying her money to the assistant vaguely , absent-mindedly . |
| 2 | Things that might irritate you ? ’ she asked carefully . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's a good wrestler , a flier , a skier — all the things that might make him an attraction to the Duchess of York . |
| 4 | Thank you for the little thoughts of avoiding the things that might upset me . |
| 5 | There were one or two things that may concern them ( the scratchy sound of the orchestra for one ) , though nothing that should deter them from tuning in , for the singing was generally fine , with particularly good contributions from the basses ( Michael George and Peter Harvey ) , the soprano Nancy Argenta , the tenor Andrew Murgatroyd , the ‘ cantor ’ Nicholas Robertson and the choir itself , here expanded , of course , to The Twenty . |
| 6 | What follows thereafter is building up the knowledge and experience of all those things that will enable us to identify , plan and implement improvements to our business . |
| 7 | Because praise is one of the things that will help them keep it up . |
| 8 | This has been described as the first ‘ social laboratory ’ where children can experiment with relationships and learn to cope with change , envy , competitiveness and rivalry — things that will help them to develop social skills . |
| 9 | Teacher : Tell me some other things that will help me play him . |
| 10 | Do the things that will let it go and then call it back into yourself . ’ |
| 11 | Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent . |
| 12 | And so you 're going to work at the things that will get you in there are n't you ? |
| 13 | The first thing to say is that this is one of those things that can disappoint us . |
| 14 | I mean , th there are other things that can give you a hit . |
| 15 | Mm , you see , a lot of the er the English scriptures talk about the , the paradise in , in its right context , you can just examine the , the , the Christian script which you might get confused because there 's a lot of er things that can take them both ways |
| 16 | it 's not pronounced in mine , but , some er they say that with where it 's gone away , you know , there 's all sorts of things that can prove it I mean the obvious thing is we came from somewhere did n't we ? , we did n't just drop here with a flash of light and er they 've studied plants and other animals and they evolved . |
| 17 | Now there are lots of things that can cause you to be stressed , and I mean , I 'm talking about a lot here . |
| 18 | These are the things that can cause you to be stressed in your environment . |
| 19 | I avoid so many of the things that used to cause me stress before . |
| 20 | It is very important to make the point that we are not interested in all aspects of a speaker 's pitch ; the only things that should interest us are those which carry some linguistic information . |
| 21 | The only thing that 'll touch it is an arc-welder — and it 's pretty conductive stuff too . |
| 22 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 23 | This is the one thing that might make me lose my temper . |
| 24 | ‘ One thing that might interest you , last year our manager jumped from that bridge and broke his neck … ’ |
| 25 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing that would influence you , of course , ’ says Caroline , ‘ but the prospects would be quite good . ’ |
| 27 | Isabel had scarcely felt the fiery rush of blood to her cheeks , the quick involuntary swelling of her flesh , before fitzAlan wrenched his hand away , transferring the reins from the other as if that was the only thing that would prevent him from touching her again . |
| 28 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 29 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 30 | You did n't know one thing that would find me . ’ |