Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that i [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research indicated that I should be able to obtain my tank , complete with cover glasses , for , though I might have manages even cheaper if I had asked someone who was a good customer of the tank-builder to order it in his own name rather than mine . |
| 2 | The family received me very warmly and Signora Ugolotti insisted that I should have something to eat : white coffee made with acorns , and home-made bread . |
| 3 | Dennis said that I 'll get over that . |
| 4 | By ( b ) I 'm not of course implying that I would necessarily agree with the judgement that pure theory is no use but I think that 's the way the students see it . |
| 5 | Such is my concern for the liberty of the subject that I am prepared to allow a contemnor who ought to be punished for contempt to go unpunished ; and that is so , notwithstanding that Parliament envisages that I could consider imposing a just punishment . ’ |
| 6 | So , there are , does this Committee think that I should like write them a letter saying |
| 7 | In the end my parents agreed that I could go up for one year instead of being at the Royal College of Music . |
| 8 | We seek to promote non-proliferation and disarmament , and that will be one of the matters to be discussed at the United Nations Security Council meeting that I shall chair next week . |
| 9 | My plan assumed that I would have to work for these by actively seeking ideas . |
| 10 | The tremendous variety of activities in Dorset ensure that I will continue to visit time after time . |
| 11 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 12 | ‘ Father , the lady asks that I will go and play to her , as I have done before . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 14 | The coal mines act said that I should n't go on the face until I was sixteen but er the war was on . |
| 15 | A contract engineer called to my machine at work said that I should have a least eight inches of space all around it to prevent it from overheating or , if that did not solve the problem , it would need a new hard disk . |
| 16 | Knowing of my discontent , Alec Harvey-Bailey suggested that I should return to Rolls-Royce , perhaps as chief quality engineer , or head of the service department — both good jobs . |
| 17 | As she looked again at the faces of her family she was ready to burst into tears and almost did so but Erika , moving lightly into the kitchen , said : ‘ Fräulein Silber thinks that I should stay with her next week . ’ |
| 18 | Naturally , I hope Heather is alive , but , if she is , she has every right to expect that I will observe absolute confidentiality where her medical history is concerned . |
| 19 | Stepping carefully over the gutter , Gonzalo remarked that I ought to wear a coat like he did . |
| 20 | Who has the right to ordain that I should be the one to go mad in this house , with a senile old woman of almost ninety years ? |
| 21 | All that Burton himself would say ( much later ) was that ‘ something of a small family crisis demanded that I should leave school and go to work ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Heaven forbid that I should dare to question anything you would do . ’ |
| 23 | A few months later he decided not to publish the book but with tremendous generosity said that I could use whatever I wanted from it . |
| 24 | I was miserable most of the time , but it would be a towering ingratitude to say that I 'd have done anything else with my life . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Goibniu suggested that I could mark the evenings by telling them tales of our travels , ’ Fenella said , remembering . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 28 | I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman thinks that I should not have such occasions with business men . |
| 29 | I turned away from my crew to demonstrate that I would not discuss the Crowninshield charter any further . |
| 30 | In 1938 Lewis took a job in a Welsh secondary school , but could see the shadow of war approaching and worried over the problem of pacifism : ‘ I have a deep sort of fatalist feeling that I 'll go . |