Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He would ask young Alex for the ring , and see that it was put well on Mary 's finger , he would wish them to be happy and fruitful and true to one another and that nothing would ever part them . |
2 | But I knew that nothing would ever discourage him ; he 'd never give up wanting to be a director , and he 'd never be any good . |
3 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
4 | I still could n't quite believe that nothing would ever be the same again , |
5 | She wondered now , in cold blood , just how she had found the courage to undertake the terrifying trip along that narrow ledge and told herself that nothing would ever induce her to go near it again . |
6 | Jessamy had known straight away that nothing would ever throw her off balance , that she would deal with life 's disasters and crises in a calm , dispassionate way , finally resolving them to her own satisfaction . |
7 | It was just that nothing would ever seem quite the same again . |
8 | Mary and Reggie those householders , as Alice contemptuously thought of them — sitting upright in their marriage bed , examining Alice , knew that nothing could ever really threaten them . |
9 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
10 | I thought when he died that nothing could ever hurt me so much — now I 'm not so sure . |
11 | To actually meet a man she did n't find boring , a man who could make her feel , and to know that nothing could ever come of it ? |
12 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
13 | Human beings have made so much progress since the beginnings of civilization , says Godwin , that nothing can now hinder the ultimate goal — the perfectibility of man . |
14 | She was already determined that nothing should ever frighten her . |
15 | As the distinguished chemist , Cornford , said : ‘ The doctrine is based on the theory that nothing should ever be done for the first time . ’ |
16 | My hope is that everyone will fully co-operate for the best beginning and development of this ‘ Day ’ . ’ |
17 | The portable cameras mean that no-one will no for sure where to find them . |
18 | The question then arises , ‘ Would this fear be there if the individual concerned knew for absolute certainty that no-one will ever know that he is guilty ? ’ . |
19 | Because it had features so distracting and so inexplicable that no-one could simply explain them away ? |
20 | For reasons that no-one can yet explain , teetotal Leslie 's Rolls-Royce careered off the M5 motorway , mounted an embankment and flipped onto its roof . |
21 | Learn a party piece and practise it till you can do it perfectly ( ie a series of jokes , a juggling/conjuring trick , a puzzle that no-one can ever solve ) . |
22 | This is strictly a fictitious place that no-one can actually occupy ( only god ! ) . |
23 | Our heart went out to her and I 'm sure that yours will too . |
24 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
25 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
26 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
27 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
28 | — it gives out with some mess that I might normally eat but now it sort of blows away and there 's a whole muddle of emotion in my … |
29 | imply that I might soon have funds . ’ |
30 | It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles . |