Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our heart went out to her and I 'm sure that yours will too . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | — 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 … |
| 5 | imply that I might soon have funds . ’ |
| 6 | It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles . |
| 7 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 8 | I felt scared that I would be seen as crazy — that I might even go crazy : that I would begin to see little green men , jump off a tower in the belief I could fly , or just sit in a corner humming ‘ Om ’ . |
| 9 | Now I miss the tie with Portugal at Ibrox next month , and there 's a hint that I might even be out against Italy in November . |
| 10 | I think he was frightened that I might unwittingly say too much — that if I knew everything , I 'd be more likely to guard my tongue ; be part of the conspiracy . ’ |
| 11 | No matter that I had no experience , I had rehearsed this role for years , blocking everything out — right down to the way I would sit , ministering to the words of the desired object — yet never believing that I might actually perform . |
| 12 | I realized that I might actually have a sin . |
| 13 | It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’ |
| 14 | What did you expect to gain from coming here , Fran — that I might suddenly decide to make a full confession ? ’ |
| 15 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 16 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |
| 17 | Like you now , I felt that I might never come back . |
| 18 | I mention these examples thankfully — they are all to do with spiritual direction and have brought learning that I might never have received within one tradition alone . |
| 19 | ‘ That I might there present it — O ! to whom ? ’ |
| 20 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 21 | ‘ I think the first clue I had that I might still be on the team was when your mum pitched up to inspect the body . ’ |
| 22 | I was forced to pay more attention to lessons in science and history at Varndean , purely so that I might better understand my other , shadowier tutelage . |
| 23 | My next thought , since saving my life 's work was out of the question , was for a pair of underpants in the probable event that I would shortly find myself in public . |
| 24 | I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop . |
| 25 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 26 | Well I have I did n't because I said that I would just tell them about it and then I would speak again this month and see what er , they say . |
| 27 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'll like Robin-Anne , ’ the senator said too quickly , thus betraying that I would probably not like Rickie . |
| 29 | I knew that I would probably lose the case if I did , and lose everything , but for my own personal esteem I needed to actually make that stand . ’ |
| 30 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |