Example sentences of "[coord] that i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He thinks I wo n't remember my lines , ’ thought Gabriel , ‘ or that I 'll rush them like I did last time . |
| 2 | They ca n't say that I 'm in a druggy haze or that I 'll get out of it . |
| 3 | o o or that I would want the hassle and not get the work . |
| 4 | There was always the fear that a chain would snap or that I would step too near . |
| 5 | Or that I would have to say oh Simon told me , and I do n't think that is a very good thing to do really . |
| 6 | I feel that the doctors might accidentally tear me up , or that I might flap off the bed in a gust of wind and float away . |
| 7 | I stammered something about not understanding cricket , totally incredulous that anyone should suppose I did understand it , or that I should regard the English side as ‘ we ’ . |
| 8 | Well I have no evidence from either of them , you know , er that er they are slamming the door on my initiative , other than the statement that was issued which if you read it , there 's very little in it that you can object to , or that I could object to , which commits them , the two governments to an initiative , and indeed that 's what er the last statement that Mr Adams and I issued asked them to do , the only er they also in in their statements say that my actions have been both courageous and imaginative |
| 9 | ‘ I promise , ’ he told them , ‘ that I shall not fail your trust and that I shall lead the country to free elections . |
| 10 | And that I would suggest is not a policy that 's consistent er for that with tempered restraint . |
| 11 | I phoned the kennel owner to inform her that British Rail insisted the dog wear a muzzle and that I would pay her back if she 'd buy one . |
| 12 | He asked me why and I said I was reading a book called My Early Life by Winston Churchill and that I would want any son of mine to live that life . |
| 13 | My reply was that I doubted if any such plan had a remote chance of success , and that I would want to be assured of the truthfulness and authenticity of the document he was planning to send me . |
| 14 | I have said we will be pleased to provide back-up with visitor 's packs etc and that I would inform you of the request . |
| 15 | I replied to his letter to say thanks for believing in me , and that I would do my best not to let him down . |
| 16 | That was plainly my bent and that I would do well to follow up this line of art rather than branch out into some other road of work . |
| 17 | So that I would n't get involved with careers officers I 'd actually make a jump and that I would do the three wise monkeys and Hilary . |
| 18 | Thus I deceived her into thinking that she had scared me , and that I would take the necessary steps to ward off fatality . |
| 19 | I think we 'll have to think very carefully that our systems are compatible so that one home can send mail to another and that I would like . |
| 20 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 21 | ‘ I realised the drink was not helping and that I would have to stop it . ’ |
| 22 | Erm , and that I would have thought would probably do it , or certainly helpful as long as you actually do it , sort of thing . |
| 23 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 24 | ‘ Tell her that I do exist and that I 'll see her one day . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 26 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 27 | As my French was better than Brian 's , we agreed that I would do the talking and that I 'd choose a moment when Mazzin was in one of his camarade moods so that neither of us would be starting from a point of anger . |
| 28 | ‘ When I saw Ivo with a parcel he was about to mail to his wife 's cousin in Karlovy Vary , I told him I was driving that way , and that I 'd drop it into the shop where Edita 's cousin works if he wished . ’ |
| 29 | That I was n't in love with Nicola — which was true — and that I 'd give her up . ’ |
| 30 | So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it . |