Example sentences of "that i [vb mod] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 2 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 3 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 4 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 5 | Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ? |
| 6 | It is only in such circumstances that I would feel assured that the matter had received consideration at the highest level and that there was no risk that the criminal law would be impeded . |
| 7 | I told her parents that I would make sure she was all right . ’ |
| 8 | Eventually she believed my protests that I would prefer Filipino fare ; it appeared — embotedo , lumpia , bulabula — all in a toasted sandwich . |
| 9 | I stood there and promised them that I would stay alive until I had killed the monster . |
| 10 | Now here , it 's useful to contrast the Hobbesian approach , which I call the pessimistic view of human nature , with one that I would call optimistic . |
| 11 | Mala 's voice from my pendant , sounding less anxious that I would have like . |
| 12 | In my early twenties I found that I would become aggressive when I was given a compliment . |
| 13 | ‘ It just means that I 'll feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 14 | You can tell the Reichführer that I 'll keep quiet if he will |
| 15 | Naturally , I hope Heather is alive , but , if she is , she has every right to expect that I will observe absolute confidentiality where her medical history is concerned . |
| 16 | Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will vote Tory to avoid , however unenthusiastically . |
| 17 | If you persist in interrupting me , it is unlikely in the extreme that I will have sufficient time to give you the complete picture which you say you are so anxious to get ! |
| 18 | I need to be fit so that I can stay awake in that Committee upstairs . |
| 19 | An anorexic may tell her friends or parents , ‘ I 'd like to be slim ’ , and , if pressed for a reason , may reply along the lines of , ‘ So that I can wear nice clothes , date good-looking boys , and generally have a good time . ’ |
| 20 | That document — I now quote from it so that I can make certain that I am not misleading the House — states : ’ Special software packages are being developed commercially and will be available before April 1991 . |
| 21 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's only because you stayed — and did what you did — that I can make light of it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ The men think that I can do disappearing tricks , too ! ’ thinks Carl . |
| 25 | ‘ For that reason , if for no other , I 'm going to do all that I can to make sure that your sordid little affair does n't succeed . |
| 26 | I am quite safe and I am certain that I can escape unharmed whenever I wish . ’ |
| 27 | You see , Miss Williams — or should I make that Fran , so that I can get used to calling you that ? — I could n't very well tell the police what had gone on last night , so I improvised . |
| 28 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 29 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 30 | I also needed to be knowledgeable about the procedures , likely outcomes and prognosis so that I could give full and accurate explanations to Mrs Allen . |