Example sentences of "[that] i [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 4 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 5 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
| 6 | I feel that I might prove a hindrance rather than a help . ’ |
| 7 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 8 | It never occurred to me that I might become a poet — partly because there were no books in the damp little prefab where we lived . |
| 9 | ‘ Thinking I would stretch the rules to suit myself is very different from thinking I would be so consumed by greed that I would commit a felony . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ My imagination is n't so impoverished that I would invent a name like Jones , ’ she came back . |
| 11 | It was to be filmed in a Spanish club off Oxford Street , and I promised my flamenco friend Nuria , who taught me all I knew for my part in the About Face playlet , Señor Duende , that I would don a leotard and flounce for her . |
| 12 | At the time I told myself that I would take a train to Perpignan and from there explore the more accessible small seaside places just because they sounded nice and quiet and I had n't seen them before . |
| 13 | So much of modern astrophysics has sprung from the seeds of radio astronomy that I would recommend a session with this book for anyone currently involved in astronomy research . |
| 14 | We expected Michael Foot , Roy Jenkins and Tony Wedgwood Benn to stand , but when Denis Healey and Tony Crosland also announced they were candidates , my team calculated that I would lose a number of votes to them , for the three of us were close in our thinking and attitudes . |
| 15 | I thought that I would have a go at getting a pilot 's course , which I did — and was soon sharply put in my place . |
| 16 | I 'd like a piana from you for Christmas or if you can not get me that I would like a bike . |
| 17 | and he did decide that I would like a cup of tea |
| 18 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 19 | Herbert 's daily life at Bemerton can be envisaged from his book The Country Parson ( later published as The Priest to the Temple ) , which he wrote , as he explained , ‘ that I may have a mark to aim at ’ . |
| 20 | Dear Guitarist I am writing this letter in the hope that I may save a lot of Gibson-lovers grief with their pickups . |
| 21 | oh , give me that I 'll have a bit of it thank you |
| 22 | Well one of the obvious pluses is that I 'll have a chance to do what I want to do when I want to do it . |
| 23 | Aye have a look , while you 're doing that I 'll have a look at what bits and pieces see if I talk to you for a minute about these |
| 24 | And I have to sort it out , sit there , sort it out and then work out how much it 's gon na come to , and then I know then when I go to the shop I know what to get , and I know when it goes in the cupboard I know that I 'll have a meal for every day of the week . |
| 25 | Such thoughts soothed me , and then the reality of what had happened would come shooting through my consciousness like a speedboat churning up a calm sea : how dare he decree that I must wear a badge indicating , for men 's convenience , whether I was available or already had an owner ? |
| 26 | The pressure from London , however , was unrelenting : ‘ Gould has been so clamorous lately ’ , Lear wrote to Jardine , ‘ at my not having done any Birds of Europe for him , that I must do a batch for him without further delay . ’ |
| 27 | Judge William Crowford told Riley : ‘ It 's a matter of great regret that I must pass a prison sentence on someone with a good record like yourself . ’ |
| 28 | I 've just been told that I will receive a grant from the Education and Library Board , which will be used to support my children and pay part of the course costs , ’ explained Nikki . |
| 29 | ‘ I give you my word , ’ she said intensely , ‘ that I will find a man who can save Swift for us all , and then I 'll marry him . ’ |
| 30 | I just feel sometimes that I can throw a rock into a pool , and watch the ripples create a certain amount of discussion . ’ |