Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 2 | ‘ Were you perhaps hoping that I might fail to keep our appointment ? ’ |
| 3 | The fact that I might choose to play something pretty much as a rhythm part one night will suggest something musically to these guys . |
| 4 | ‘ Will you take me on the road here to see one or two things that I might like to see ? ’ |
| 5 | He he he actually suggested that I might like to call and see him this afternoon but I was n't available for that so well |
| 6 | At any rate , at the next ward meeting , he suggested that I might like to stand for the local council . |
| 7 | It had always , I think , been assumed that I might try to get to Oxford , and history ( by an equally mysterious process ) became the subject of my choice . |
| 8 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 9 | I came here sweating thinking that I might have to do some work |
| 10 | P C would have had a revolver that I would expect to have been drawn . |
| 11 | What will tend to happen is for example , erm , in my section to deal with public courses , I would have information about the venues that I 'm going to use this year , I would have information about the mailing lists I 'm going to use , and information about the mailing lists of my office I 'm going to use , I would have prospects that I 'm going to call , you know , it 's all stuff that I would tend to plan out on a pad of paper and then insert into the particular data section , and refer to as I need to . |
| 12 | I obviously I from what was coming out you probably could n't work out very much to help you but nonetheless I know that I would want to do that as a person . |
| 13 | Erm , nothing Chair that I would want to refer to other than the , on page eleven we 're showing a figure there for management and support . |
| 14 | The one thing that I would want to draw your attention to is paragraph three , er , point seven , where you 'll see that the costs of running The Beeches , during the period of , of transition as it were , was five thousand eight hundred and thirty , of which a maximum of three thousand and seventy six may be recovered from the residents . |
| 15 | Might need to think about what are some of the things , that I would want to have as a conclusion . |
| 16 | I think probably one of the key things that I would want to get over to you is that we , we do n't actually hear from you enough . |
| 17 | I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat . |
| 18 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 19 | I think I obscurely felt relief that I would continue to live alone , to have at least a few hours of the day and night when I could try to regain one of my mixed-up selves . |
| 20 | We discussed the present situation and the representations that we had made to the People 's Republic of China , and I reaffirmed the fact that I would continue to make such representations . |
| 21 | But it is not via Lourdes that I would choose to enter Bigorre . |
| 22 | May I just say I went to erm Johnstown yesterday because I had half promised our friends here that I would go to support them . |
| 23 | I confess I feel perplexed to find that any communication which you may have had with Mr Blair should lead you to think that I would consent to preach at Kildalton as a candidate . |
| 24 | However , no equipment will last for ever and it started to become obvious that I would need to update before too long . |
| 25 | All I can say in my defence is that I have nothing now in my life that I would need to hide from you . ’ |
| 26 | When I wrote that I would need to know more about you , I was n't thinking in terms of your physical appearance . |
| 27 | It is , sir , ma'am , that I would wish to return to your service and come with you . ’ |
| 28 | Even in these relatively heated times , I am not sure that I would wish to use such a word as fraud against the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) . |
| 29 | That is not the sort of society that I would wish to belong to . |
| 30 | I felt scared that I would be seen as crazy — that I might even go crazy : that I would begin to see little green men , jump off a tower in the belief I could fly , or just sit in a corner humming ‘ Om ’ . |