Example sentences of "that i [vb mod] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rushed to tell me , fearing that I might be upset . |
| 2 | Quite soon after the note , I began to suspect — what I had never even thought about , for some naive reason — that I might be pregnant . |
| 3 | At the time I conjectured — and she said doubtfully that I might be right — that she was thus exorcizing the spirit of ‘ ferocity , brutality , violence ’ , which had tempted her artist in A Wreath of Roses away from her true world , and made her fearful of being ‘ ladylike , nostalgic , governessy ’ . |
| 4 | He did n't even seem to consider for a moment that I might be innocent . |
| 5 | Sometimes , when she was startled or frightened on my fist or as I approached her , it was painful to think that I might be responsible for her fear . |
| 6 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Besides , did it ever cross your mind that I might be jealous of you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 9 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 10 | I felt that I might be able to apply what I learned — if indeed I learned anything — to my attempts to reconstruct the life of Elsie . |
| 11 | If I thought that I might be able to count on your friendship , despite all that 's happened , then … |
| 12 | It then occurred to me that I might be able to help , and I picked up the telephone and spoke to Winston . |
| 13 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 14 | ‘ I was n't intending to play singles league tennis that season but suggested that I might be able to help out the youngsters and we won most of our matches 5–0 or 4–1 , ’ said Minnis . |
| 15 | But even though I was in love , I did n't hide from myself the fact that I would be unhappy with Estella . |
| 16 | It was the same story with the first three but the fourth told me that I would be certain to get a coffin from a firm of suppliers in Birkenhead and was kind enough to give me their telephone number . |
| 17 | Fire extinguishers may seem a good idea , but there are so many types to be used for so many different sorts of fires that I would be nervous of escalating a fire , rather than killing it , by using the wrong type of extinguisher . |
| 18 | I shall show why I do not think — it is not what my officials think , but what I think — that I would be right to use the discretion which he correctly said lies with me . |
| 19 | that I would be overdrawn . |
| 20 | Did you imagine that I would be grateful for the attention ? |
| 21 | I have made it a point of honour to spare you moral blackmail of the ‘ Do you honestly suppose for a single moment that I would be capable of stooping to such beastliness ? ’ variety , and I shall not waver even at this supreme moment . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 23 | It did occur to me that since everyone seemed to be playing a game with rules unknown to me , Robert might not be concerned only that I would be bored by myself , but he might want me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 24 | ‘ I have made , ’ says Lars Von Trier , the film 's Danish director , ‘ a film that I would be afraid to see . ’ |
| 25 | I said that I would be happy to appear on any television programme about the valleys initiative at any time . |
| 26 | I , I mean I , I , I w I could n't say that I would be happy being in the house all the time . |
| 27 | In order to reassure himself , he might question the stranger about things from my own past , recalling occasions which only I could possibly remember and comparing his answers with those that I would be likely to give . |
| 28 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 29 | He also informed me that I would be mad by the age of 21 . |
| 30 | Nothing very much has happened so far , but I thought I would take the opportunity to write a longish letter , knowing that I would be busy later on . |