Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , however , I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil that dream , and always he had Leslie 's eyes , dark , with soft expressive light . |
| 2 | I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about . |
| 3 | It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight . |
| 4 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 5 | Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will . |
| 6 | But his lack of affection for her did n't lessen her love for him , nor did she give up hope that she would one day be able to make him feel genuinely fond of her . |
| 7 | The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way . |
| 8 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
| 9 | His eyes did not leave the view as he said , ‘ Did you ever think when you were living in that flat in Manchester that you would one day own all this ? ’ |
| 10 | That day at the Fontana di Trevi , you threw in a coin as all tourists do , so that you would some day return to Rome . |
| 11 | is that more similar your attitudes and beliefs are to somebody , the more likely it is that you 'll mutual attraction . |
| 12 | To help you memorize useful phrases it is helpful to prepare dialogues that you can first practice with your language helper and with the tape recorder before you go out and try the phrases with other people . |
| 13 | I ca n't work or read or play or anything until I know that you will some day be mine ! |
| 14 | Er , rural traffic calming , speed cameras , provision for cyclists , pedestrian are all new money with a road safety bias in it , so I think we 've done the best that we could this year . |
| 15 | a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them . |
| 16 | The Ali Watch : how absurd that it would one day drop down here on a little hospital on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina . |
| 17 | Erm so one suspects that if something of truly national importance really came , that it might any planning control might be overridden in the merits in the urgency of the case . |
| 18 | This did n't happen last year and I was cross it did n't but I 've organized it so that it will this year . |
| 19 | Therefore , although hard work is necessary , slavishly following a " suggested regime " month after month hoping that it will some day " click " , may be ill-advised . |
| 20 | A group of OSF/Motif suppliers are embarking on a process to keep the graphical user interface ‘ open ’ and allay end-user fears that it could one day be hijacked by an unscrupulous vendor and turned into a proprietary superset of interface characteristics . |
| 21 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
| 22 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
| 23 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 24 | John , like Clement , worked hard to secure the king at home and abroad so that he might one day embark on the crusade : the barons , the Scots , and the French were all pressured by John on Edward 's behalf . |
| 25 | But underneath this camp humour lay the constant dread that he might one day incur conviction and imprisonment . |
| 26 | Furthermore , he proclaimed that he would one day rule again over the Roman Empire , that he would vex dishonest priests , and that he would not cease from battle until the Holy Land was delivered into Christian hands . |
| 27 | He confessed that he had ‘ missed playing Test cricket over the past couple of years ’ but had never lost the belief that he would one day play for his country again . |
| 28 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
| 29 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |
| 30 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |