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 .
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