Example sentences of "[adj] [that] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at moments like this that I would reflect on concepts like the ‘ community ’ of work and how lost one can be without it . |
| 2 | I am quite clear that I shall have to go into the evidence very carefully when the police report is available to me . |
| 3 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 4 | Notwithstanding the problems it was clear that I could emulate to some extent the effect of the shoulder rotation ( shoulder torque ) and movement of the wrist ( wrist torque ) . |
| 5 | But the actual letter survives and only a mind predisposed to suspect the sender could think it pompous : ‘ After the most careful consideration I have decided , if you are willing that I should do so , to recommend your name for the succession to the see of Durham . ’ |
| 6 | With limited space , it is unavoidable that I can provide only a summary of the work of a very active Association , but I thought your readers would be interested to know that schools are not being neglected . |
| 7 | ‘ As your agent , I should advise you against it — my cut will be so minute that I 'll lose it through a hole in my pocket . |
| 8 | ‘ There are some people , ’ Lydia had said , ‘ who , as it were , belong in my house , and there are some that I can tolerate . |
| 9 | One of the longest that I can think of spans a lake . |
| 10 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 11 | I shall answer it as best I can , although I am afraid that I may burden Opposition Members with an answer that they have heard before . |
| 12 | For me a town was a mysterious , rather forbidding place and I was afraid that I would feel very much alone . |
| 13 | In private conversation he told Asquith " I am afraid that I shall have to show myself very vicious Mr Asquith this session . |
| 14 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
| 15 | But I 'm afraid that I must ride , because I 'm not at my next appointment so . |
| 16 | My goggles ice up at regular intervals and I wipe them with my glove , afraid that I will miss the trail a groundless fear as the dogs follow the pack scent . |
| 17 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 18 | The reception for visiting supporters was so different that I would like to comment . |
| 19 | And at the end of that fifty thousand years , if that 's what it is , the populations are sufficiently different that I 'd think you 'd want to put them into a different species if — I mean how are you to know , but I mean it 's a reasonable judgement . |
| 20 | Fortunately it is only to a few that I need refer . |
| 21 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |
| 22 | Why is it odd that I should try to help her when she is in difficulties ? ’ |
| 23 | It 's odd that I should remember that now , because I did n't connect the two incidents at the time . |
| 24 | But it would be possible that I might end up back at Ritchie Motors . |
| 25 | But having read them , it is first of all possible that I may have some queries on them . |
| 26 | It may be possible that I shall meet them all again one day . |
| 27 | This plan makes it as likely as possible that I shall employ behaviours that are appropriate in two vital ways : |
| 28 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , ’ Athelstan added , ‘ is it possible that I could speak to one of the laundresses ? ’ |
| 30 | Senna said yesterday : ‘ It is possible that I will race IndyCars in 1993 . |