Example sentences of "[that] i [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also sure that I ought to mug up as much as I could about Italy . |
| 2 | He rang off and I realised that I ought to leave shortly since Jack was due to tee off at midday . |
| 3 | ' ’ I have a feeling that I ought to sit back — one chooses too often — that the next move is not up to me . ’ |
| 4 | learn my trade that I ought to stay here and put something back into the industry again . |
| 5 | Dr. Lorrimer told me that I ought to find out all I can and not just look on this job as routine . " |
| 6 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 7 | I 'm not planning to try so hard for it that I might break down . ’ |
| 8 | But it would be possible that I might end up back at Ritchie Motors . |
| 9 | It was a make or break meeting and I was scared that I might end up getting violent — I was bunging it all up , trying to keep my mind balanced . |
| 10 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 11 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 12 | I asked for names and addresses so that I might pass on details to the police . |
| 13 | Referring to the theatre 's revolving stage , the Prince joked : ‘ I have never hoped more than now that I might revolve round there behind the scenes . ’ |
| 14 | I had some dim idea that I should see what sort of creatures these whores were , so that I might find out what I was . |
| 15 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 16 | I suppose in interview , especially with er a C V like mine , that I might come over as quite erm naive |
| 17 | I merely told David Knell that I might write more in future . ’ |
| 18 | And I also have a bunch of instruments that I might try out in a song ; you get to know what each one will do , but you still have to try two or three to see which has the best voice for the tune . ’ |
| 19 | It makes me long for a complete collection so that I might read on , especially the verse you mention but do not quote . |
| 20 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 21 | It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . |
| 22 | For me a town was a mysterious , rather forbidding place and I was afraid that I would feel very much alone . |
| 23 | I thought that I would scratch out the pictures , but now that the woman has seen them they are not mine any more . |
| 24 | There was always the fear that a chain would snap or that I would step too near . |
| 25 | erm it does n't bother me in the slightest because I know that I would prefer maybe to be on my own than to be restricted by someone . |
| 26 | I decided early in the morning that I would struggle somehow to Cambridge , and then go back home . |
| 27 | I never , on the other hand , determined that I would separate out a whole slot for a women 's magazine . |
| 28 | Since there was no picture with June 's letter I was not aware that I would end up with the cable I was looking for . |
| 29 | Near the sea there is a little park which has open-air cafés in it and I decided that I would go along there and read your letter while I relaxed with a cup of coffee . |
| 30 | I feel really angry I mean I 'm you might say because of my job that I I ought to be law abiding but I am a law abiding person and i like to think that I would go along with all all the laws because they are they are brought in for the benefit of all . |