Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night .
2 Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next .
3 I 'm just praying that we can avoid the type of injuries that we got last season .
4 So she rode slowly through them , mostly holding her breath and praying that they would n't charge at her .
5 They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup .
6 I remember , at the close of the fifties , going to a hairdresser and praying that he would n't talk .
7 The beam of the torch wavered as he did so , and she cringed , praying that he would not notice .
8 A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion .
9 She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open .
10 She felt like that fish caught by the curlew , one part of her praying that he would spit her out again , the other , perversely , longing for him to swallow her up .
11 For the moment , Mr Rocard is probably just praying that he can hold on to his seat in the Yvelines .
12 There are thousands , not of his flock , who are praying that he will not .
13 There are thousands , not of his flock , who are praying that he will not .
14 We talk about London and Grand Isle , and all the while I am praying that he will ask us on his boat .
15 So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it .
16 She wore her bridal clothes and jewellery : this was how her mother had sent her , for the first time , from her home , taking care that every detail of her ornaments should be perfect hoping , praying that she would be happy .
17 As the only bridesmaid , she had been following Liz up the aisle of the small country church , nervously clutching her bouquet of trailing greenery and praying that she would n't make the awful mistake of treading on the long train of Liz 's wedding dress .
18 Inwardly praying that she might be able to show her piety and understanding , she said , ‘ Yes , I 'm sure it must mean a lot to you .
19 Joy shrank behind her father , praying that she could disappear altogether .
20 Please keep praying that I will master the German ways of doing things , that are so different .
21 Folly threw on a dressing-gown and hurried through to answer it , praying that it would n't be Luke .
22 So I waited four days , watching the weather , praying that it would n't change and when the night arrived to fish again , and the conditions were identical to that wonderful night four moons ago , I felt like I was eight years old again on Christmas eve .
23 Just praying er just praying that it would happen for her .
24 er just praying er just praying that it would happen for her .
25 All the while you are praying that you wo n't be thrown off the top of some emotional Empire State Building , by having very similar news broken to you .
26 I do n't deserve another chance — but I 'm hoping , praying that you will give me one anyway . ’
27 She often seemed to worry that they would appear strange to me and out of key with the age .
28 Access to files sometimes leads people to worry that they will be sued if the record contains unprovable statements .
29 Some institutions , such as Mitsubishi Bank , are doing well to worry that it might .
30 From the ascription on the first page of H400D , Te Deum Simple Le feu Roy ayant voulu qu'il ne dura guere plus que sa messe ordinaire ( ‘ Simple Te Deum , the late King having wished that it will last little more than his usual mass ’ ) , we can deduce that this score , or at least this inscription , must be dated between the death of Louis XIV in September 1715 , and that of the composer , in June 1726 .
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