Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was after this debacle that a number of Conservatives came and told me that I ought to consider coming forward as a leader of the Party and a potential Prime Minister . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I wrote that I would need to know more about you , I was n't thinking in terms of your physical appearance . |
| 4 | However , this is the conclusion that I would have reached apart altogether from considering Hansard . |
| 5 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 6 | ‘ I am so certain of my place here that I would have resigned anyway , and now I have good reason three times over … my nerve had already failed twice , and could n't do so again … . ’ |
| 7 | It is this typological point that I would like to consider now , bearing in mind the question of historical divergence and convergence that I referred to above . |
| 8 | Almost as though she knew that Matey was thinking about her , McAllister looked up and said , ‘ I would never have thought that I would enjoy knitting so much , and the ladies ’ sewing circle , too . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Now that you point it out , I see that I may have acted rashly . ’ |
| 10 | That makes it strategically important that I report back to Earth Central , Defries thought , and of course it also makes it highly unlikely that I 'll survive to do so . |
| 11 | ‘ It means … that I shall have to go away . ’ |
| 12 | I can see that I will have to get away from this stinking city with its endless acres of asphalted rumour , its tenements of whores and pimps , its traffic in misery and its festering suburbs of ding-dong doorbelled malice . |
| 13 | I admit that I could have walked away … ’ |
| 14 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 15 | Now they were making it clear that they expected more from her : " If I had done reasonably well , they would say that I should have done better , and if I had done badly , they would ask , " What 's wrong with you ? " " |
| 16 | I do not feel that I should have to instruct even junior typists that my documents , all my documents , are entirely confidential . ’ |
| 17 | Given my background , as described in the previous chapter , it is not surprising that I should have felt particularly sensitive on this point . |
| 18 | PAMELA : Sir , when you consider that I had no prospect before me but dishonour , you will allow that I should have seemed very little in earnest in my profession of honesty not to endeavour to get away . |
| 19 | We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful . |
| 20 | ‘ Danker , ’ said the man in battle-dress , and to me : ‘ Hullo , old boy ’ as if it was inevitable that I should have come there some time or other , and went on throwing the ball about . |
| 21 | For slowly , half-consciously , but inexorably , there was growing in her mind the conviction that she would have to leave home . |
| 22 | Besides , when she , Cati , thought that she would have to go again to find Tommaso and arrange a further tryst , she was swept by apprehensions she could not quite name . |
| 23 | Secondly , it is not even probable that she would have known much about the progress of the book at the time , except in the most general terms : she was not often in her brother 's company and his letters to her during these years do not suggest that details of such matters formed any part of their common ground . |
| 24 | I suspect that she may have telephoned yet again in the small hours . |
| 25 | Her feet hurt a good deal , and she thought , though not wishing to be ungrateful , that she might have done better without the boots . |
| 26 | I would n't be at all surprised if it were too much to get finished in one day — which would mean that she 'd have to stay overnight . ’ |
| 27 | It had been years since she had cried like that , and that she should have done so now in front of Luke surprised her even more . |
| 28 | He felt that she should have cared enough to confide in us , where really she cared too much and did n't . |
| 29 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 30 | Bertha would have been sent the message that she could go hopping sideways — while she herself would have been told to get down the road and out of his sight . |