Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I bribed my way into a gang that I heard would be — ‘ |
| 2 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 3 | I would n't take anything that I thought might be too harmful and detrimental to my health , y'know . |
| 4 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 5 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 6 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 7 | Essentially it adds to measures in various statutes , notably in the Highways Act 1980 — covering England and Wales — and the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 , so that traffic-calming techniques of the sort that I outlined can be constructed by highway and road authorities . |
| 8 | Did you yourself give thought to the action that you thought would be required ? |
| 9 | And we made within two minutes to sort out what we were going to , or we decided what charity first , then we decided two would decide on the script while the others cut out relevant pieces that we thought might be useful words . |
| 10 | We found a computer that had mysteriously been left untouched by the Iraqis ( they took anything that they thought might be valuable broke everything else , as a rule ) . |
| 11 | The history of this is that for many years M O D were unhappy about expansion of the , of the port er , for commercial use and the reason they were unhappy of course was that erm commercial use was competition that they felt would be likely to drive up wages . |
| 12 | Each of the practices reported some improvement in the provision of hospital care or practice services that they felt could be attributed to the acquisition of fundholding status . |
| 13 | The economic impact of the family of drugs that it generated will be charted to the present day ( including development costs and profits by pharmaceutical companies ) . |
| 14 | He had also a box of groceries to pick up and some wooden and cardboard boxes that he thought would be useful for Willie 's room . |
| 15 | James could then choose the ones that he thought would be most interesting . |
| 16 | So very early one morning when the wind was a moderate westerly and made northward progress easy , Creggan set off over the great industrial cities to find the high ground beyond them that he sensed would be there . |
| 17 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |
| 18 | Will he assure the House that the necessary funds to enable the TECs to undertake the additional responsibilities that he announced will be provided for those excellent bodies ? |
| 19 | The next step that he foresaw would be that Mr Ramsay MacDonald comes to the King and asks for a Dissolution : indeed Mr Asquith believes that in accepting office Mr Ramsay MacDonald will very probably ask His Majesty to promise a Dissolution in the event of an early defeat of the Government in the House of Commons … |
| 20 | The panel that he envisaged would be made up of their representatives and would provide them with a forum to air concerns . |
| 21 | He 'd pulled two out at random , but the one that he wanted would be the next on the route . |