Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
| 2 | I thought that it was probably some stupid village prank , but that I 'd better get in as soon as possible in case something odd was happening . |
| 3 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 4 | Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could ! |
| 5 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 6 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 7 | But , confessing to the odd moment of scruffiness , he pointed out : ‘ I have to admit that I do still like the comfort of shorts and a T-shirt . ’ |
| 8 | Some of the horror stories that I hear are horrendous , but I want to tell you three issues that I do actually know about . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , Miguel , you say these things in such a serious voice that I do almost believe you . |
| 10 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 11 | What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it . |
| 12 | It was three years later that I did finally audition , at seventeen . |
| 13 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |
| 14 | These tests established exactly what they had done before ; namely that I did indeed have an exceptionally accurate visual memory . |
| 15 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 16 | No the one that I did really want |
| 17 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 18 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |