Example sentences of "[that] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 32 | and really I did n't need to do that I ought |
| 33 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 34 | She even had the audacity to suggest that I might have been ‘ carrying on ’ with Sir Vivien . |
| 35 | I merely told David Knell that I might write more in future . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
| 37 | The station cafe was still open so I decided that I might as well go in there . |
| 38 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 39 | I 'm not planning to try so hard for it that I might break down . ’ |
| 40 | I know it is unlikely that I will see it , but just the thought that I might is enough . |
| 41 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 42 | But it would be possible that I might end up back at Ritchie Motors . |
| 43 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 44 | It makes me long for a complete collection so that I might read on , especially the verse you mention but do not quote . |
| 45 | Like you now , I felt that I might never come back . |
| 46 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 47 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 48 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 49 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 50 | I feel that the doctors might accidentally tear me up , or that I might flap off the bed in a gust of wind and float away . |
| 51 | Sometimes I would like to have a go , experiment with make-up , but because Mum does n't wear any , it does n't occur to her that I might like to . |
| 52 | Write Ellen and by express even telegram for which I will pay in order that I might have the relief of knowing you have understood and all is clear . |
| 53 | I gave him my breath until I was dizzy myself and I still would n't accept it was all useless , that I might as well stop . |
| 54 | Imagine my excitement , therefore , when it seemed recently that I might have stumbled across it in the shape of the Tower House in Malmesbury , Wiltshire . |
| 55 | Still , however , I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil that dream , and always he had Leslie 's eyes , dark , with soft expressive light . |
| 56 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 57 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 58 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 59 | ‘ I thought that I might do an article to celebrate it ; describe the problems they face , and their success in tackling them . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |