Example sentences of "[that] [adj] time [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She replied that of course she could trust me , but that this time she would like us to meet . |
| 2 | Debbie was determined that this time she would fight it off . |
| 3 | Not daring to tremble , she saw the point of his sword coming towards her heart , and , sure that this time she would die , closed her eyes . |
| 4 | The thought crept into the warmth and she trembled , afraid that this time she could not face rejection . |
| 5 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 6 | But the negotiators , led by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 's Jalal Talabani and including the nephew of Masoud Barzani , the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party , claimed that this time it could all be different . |
| 7 | We have it from on high , however , that this time it will . |
| 8 | I have a feeling that this time it will be all right for her . |
| 9 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 10 | Everyone is praying that this time it will be third time lucky . |
| 11 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid that this time he wo n't be so lucky … he wo n't come back and I 'll end up losing him to some atrocious person that really and truthfully I do n't think should be on this earth |
| 13 | Athelstan was pleased to see that it was empty and insisted that this time he should be host . |
| 14 | He found peace in the fact that this time he could help , and decided to watch over her until she recovered . |
| 15 | But something about him makes me feel that this time he will do what he has said . |
| 16 | The advantage of having trekked with a World Challenge Expedition is that another time she will know how things ought to be planned . |
| 17 | On Channel 2 , the unctuous host of the Gerry Springer chat show had apparently taken a serious oil overdose as he presided over a freak show of truly terrible cases of giantism and dwarfism by telling his goggle-eyed studio viewers they were each of them there ‘ so that next time we may understand and empathise when we meet a woman 7ft 10ins tall . ’ |
| 18 | I hope that next time we will have a woman in a major role . |
| 19 | Because they know that next time they 'll be out on their ears . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That will be enough for him , because he knows that next time he will make more money , perhaps 10 , perhaps even 50 per cent . |
| 21 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 22 | ‘ I just know that next time I can do a lot better , ’ she confesses . |