Example sentences of "that i would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 2 | Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school . |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 5 | There were no decent men on my own horizons and I already feared that I would be spending my life alone . |
| 6 | They had become my friends and there was no way that I would now go back to being their problem dependant . |
| 7 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 8 | This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems . |
| 9 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 10 | The visitor left , forgetting to take her sewing machine , and I left with her , knowing full well that I would never see Aisha again and that news of my forcing the lock on her cupboard would reach my family and the whole village well amplified , so that I 'd end up accused of stealing all of Aisha 's possessions . |
| 11 | I had got so used to the straight criss-crossing North-South , East-West roads of most American cities that I would have to acquire a taste for the more complex and possibly much more fascinating spread of London lanes . |
| 12 | Explaining why he now supports the Grand Slam Cup , after refusing to compete a year ago , he said ‘ I have my word to the ATP that I would do everything I signed to do in my contract with them . |
| 13 | I feel that I would like |
| 14 | ‘ I am not so complacent that I would say they wo n't become a formidable competitor but for now they are not , ’ Jonathan Martin , head of sport at the BBC , said . |
| 15 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I stated that I would not hesitate to condemn and punish unacceptable behaviour ; equally , I would issue praise . |
| 17 | I have made it absolutely clear from the outset that I would not in any circumstances give up my family 's present interest in Blackpool FC . |
| 18 | I was told that I would be given the money when I got to Singapore . |
| 19 | Quite clearly , to the shame of local and central government , the homelessness crisis has been allowed to get to such a level that I would describe it as a national disgrace . ’ |
| 20 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 21 | ‘ From our very first meeting he has always told me that he would never do anything to put the Soviet Union 's security in danger — and he knows that I would never endanger our security . |
| 22 | I had never heard of it before , but it was certainly something that I would look out for in the future with much apprehension . |
| 23 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 24 | I drained my mess-tin , got to my feet and went out across the cobbled farmyard , under the arch , and out along the road leading to Brigade H.Q hoping that I would not be requiring the special services offered by the medics . |
| 25 | I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again . |
| 26 | It is midnight and after great difficulty I managed with my little bit of French to convey to my dancing partner of the evening that I would like to see her home . |
| 27 | She had no idea that I would be in this area . |
| 28 | It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age . |
| 29 | I was now completely in the dark and it was here that I would shoot whatever film I had onto the skirting board of my makeshift cinema . |
| 30 | I never wanted to go to university although I do know , however , that my mum and dad always had it in the back of their minds that I would go . |