Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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1 | Stepping carefully over the gutter , Gonzalo remarked that I ought to wear a coat like he did . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I suggested , and then went on to say that I might find a little job . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
7 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
8 | I honestly think meself , that I might have a have a couple of hard months , maybe three , first three months might be a bit difficult for me . |
9 | I feel that I might prove a hindrance rather than a help . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The only thing that I might need a medical for is my thirty thousand pound life insurance . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
14 | My brother said that I would make a good banker . |
15 | If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ? |
16 | ‘ My imagination is n't so impoverished that I would invent a name like Jones , ’ she came back . |
17 | Today I decided that I would organize a little party tomorrow night . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | This does not mean that I like to be led by the nose , but only that I would appreciate a little extra guidance ’ . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | She never dreamed that I would become a managing director ! |
25 | I felt honoured by the kindness of one or two of your congregation , who happen to be members of the committee , in having written to assure me that I would receive a speedy and unanimous Call , if I would only consent to accept it . |
26 | I 'd like a piana from you for Christmas or if you can not get me that I would like a bike . |
27 | ‘ I think , ’ said the tourist , ‘ that I would like a little rest now . |
28 | and he did decide that I would like a cup of tea |
29 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
30 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |