Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |
| 2 | Let us hope that for once he will stand up and be counted and go down fighting — as go down he assuredly will . |
| 3 | John Burns will show me a way out of the difficulty [ poverty ] I shall be delighted , but it seems to me that until then I must work ’ . |
| 4 | wait a minute , we 'll leave that in there we 'll let it go out , see how it goes for a couple of months , Glen will know where we can use any money for that anyway for a couple of months |
| 5 | And because I fear that that is the position , I can not help but feel that before long we will have yet another attempt to amend Act seventeen , nineteen sixty three and that we will go round the circuit , the same circuit once again with I fear the same result . |
| 6 | But I knew I could trust you , and that at least you would believe me . |
| 7 | He therefore earnestly begs of me that since you deservedly have the nomination of an Gardner to the Chelsea Garden , which I understand is now vacant , that I would address you in his behalf that at least you would accept of him as an Candidate if there are other competitors and , if found sufficiently qualifyd you would propose him accordingly as you shall find he deserves . |
| 8 | I prop a chair against the iron door every night , so that at least I shall know if he tries to get in without my hearing . |
| 9 | ‘ Just make sure , ’ she continued imperiously , ‘ that you only work until five o'clock , so that at least I can have some privacy in the evenings . ’ |
| 10 | The thought flashed through her mind that at least she would die with Tweed … |
| 11 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 12 | The comforting knowledge that at least she will get as far as the British Embassy tonight gives her the strength for attack . |
| 13 | Sally felt good in it — the fur was gorgeously soft when she buried her chin in it and she thought that at least she could hold her own in the midst of all this elegance . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm hoping that by tomorrow we 'll know something definite . |
| 15 | I hope that by now you can begin to appreciate the delicacy of discrimination and the moral fervour which I have sought to bring to my work and that you will hold these qualities in your mind when the grossness , vulgarity and immorality of gossip or criticism begins to corrode the lucid purity of my text . |