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 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 .
26 — 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 …
27 imply that I might soon have funds . ’
28 It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles .
29 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 .
30 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 ’ .
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