Example sentences of "that [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Respondents understood very clearly the difficult role of the manager , and some workers openly confessed that nothing would induce them to take on the manager 's job ! |
| 2 | They tied down the oars , too , so that nothing could move them . |
| 3 | She thought of Alexei , his life , its wealth , its comforts , his family , so substantially lodged in him that nothing could remove them . |
| 4 | When I consider the striking natural beauties of such a river as that at Matlock , and the effect of the seven-storey buildings that have been raised there , and on other beautiful streams , for cotton manufactories , I am inclined to think that nothing can equal them for the purpose of disbeautifying an enchanting piece of scenery ; and that economy had produced , what the greatest ingenuity , if a prize were given for ugliness , could not surpass . |
| 5 | It 's not just that nothing can harm them ( that old suave illusion ) , but that nothing can harm anyone they care about either . |
| 6 | And I only hope that in the end our roads will become so clogged with all these fume-belching cars and lorries that everyone will give them up and start going by train again . |
| 7 | Moreover , time and again there are ‘ hidden grievers ’ who bear their distress alone , feeling that no-one can help them . |
| 8 | Players of this game put out one ‘ bait ’ after another hoping that someone will tell them to stop it . |
| 9 | If they weep and wail and gnash their teeth enough , their hope is that someone will rescue them , sort out all their problems , love them . |
| 10 | It 's so that nobody could see them . |
| 11 | It followed that somewhere in the world there were soil micro-organisms with enzymes capable of attacking any substance which occurred in living tissues , and , given such enzymes , that one might use them , for instance , to destroy bacteria lethal to man . |
| 12 | Another thing that Lil and I have in common : we have always conducted our-wildly different — love lives according to the premise that one should Leave Them Wanting More . |
| 13 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 14 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 15 | The more abstract the mode of analysis of the problem and therefore the more connected the items on the check-list become , the less likely that one can solve them alone . |
| 16 | The Buddha of Suburbia is a jaunty unambitious novel — a far cry , doubtless , from those early works , which Kureishi incinerated ‘ for fear that anybody would read them and know things about me ’ . |