Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished fervently that they might be allowed to be together , that nothing would happen to make them part . |
| 2 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I realised the drink was not helping and that I would have to stop it . ’ |
| 5 | After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , because … well , naturally when I took the job I did n't realise that I would come to dislike him so much . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
| 9 | It really is something that I would like to see us achieve in the future and if this can be brought forward by meeting the developer down there , then I would be , certainly be in favour of that and I would certainly like , and this is what we said at this meeting , to find out a little more detail of exactly what they were offering but we have to be minded all the time , as I said again , is how we 're going to acquire permission to go over one or two different land owners ' lands . |
| 10 | We have got a flexibility factor on Tuesday morning , but if I can avoid that I would like to do it , and I 'm sure some some others would as well . |
| 11 | That 's the overall and rather special context of this year in , in the year of the youth but every year is an important from the point of view of commodores and clubs and the amount of work that ac goes on on the ground through supporting causes and the effort to recruit membership and it 's in that rather mundane day to day part of R Y A membership that I would like to congratulate you first I think all of you have worked extremely hard and the reports reflect the success achieved and I would particularly highlight the increase in membership , now that obviously has n't been easy and this does require a huge effort of , a consistent effort and it 's not something you can just apply every now and again . |
| 12 | ‘ I must confess , ’ Mrs Carson smiled , ‘ that I would like to keep you with us . |
| 13 | But you really ‘ should n't have ’ — I know you have so many other things on your mind that I would hate to think I was adding to them . |
| 14 | You 'd better warn him that I 'll expect to see him some time tomorrow , if he does n't feel up to an interview this evening , that is ! ’ |
| 15 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 16 | Anything that I can do to help them , any words I write which may soften their lot , is little enough . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm not a very orthodox kind of counsellor or psychiatrist but if there 's anything within my power that I can do to help you , then I 'll do it . |
| 18 | It is clear enough , though large and dim ; any higher magnification shows it well , though even with × 20 I am not at all sure that I can begin to resolve it into stars . |
| 19 | Smiles from that quarter are not so plentiful that I can afford to disregard them , but I was n't in the mood to appreciate one right at that moment . |
| 20 | I am not sure whether , as a hostage , you should be allowed near to these people who — although you claim them as relatives — have no cause that I can see to regard you as a friend . |
| 21 | However , I believe that I could manage to call you father if it is appropriate to the circumstances . ’ |
| 22 | You do not suppose that I could continue to employ you in a house where I have the welfare and character of two innocent children in my charge ? |
| 23 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 24 | Why is it odd that I should try to help her when she is in difficulties ? ’ |
| 25 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 26 | Not that I 'd wish to encourage you , but if she had children she would n't be so generous to you . |
| 27 | ‘ But understand , from my side , that I 'd like to see her once a fortnight , if it 's just for an hour , and that whatever holidays the other bairns have , she 's got to have the same . |
| 28 | Now , I 've got some questions that I 'd like to ask you . |
| 29 | These are questions that I 'd like to ask you from what you 've told me so far , erm , I 'd like to ask you Mr about erm , from your point of view , from your erm experience with the electrical |
| 30 | Now I think that is a basic injustice that I 'd like to hear you two address . |