Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I supposed that I ought to have brought the Ghost down too , but the priority had been to save myself from what seemed like imminent electrocution . |
| 2 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 4 | That does not excuse the fact that I ought to have found out otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | But against that , although I know that he 'd took three or four very good jobs that I ought to have had , but he was a very , very good detective , a hard working inspector . |
| 6 | It was after this debacle that a number of Conservatives came and told me that I ought to consider coming forward as a leader of the Party and a potential Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 8 | ‘ Were you perhaps hoping that I might fail to keep our appointment ? ’ |
| 9 | The fact that I might choose to play something pretty much as a rhythm part one night will suggest something musically to these guys . |
| 10 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
| 11 | ‘ Will you take me on the road here to see one or two things that I might like to see ? ’ |
| 12 | He he he actually suggested that I might like to call and see him this afternoon but I was n't available for that so well |
| 13 | At any rate , at the next ward meeting , he suggested that I might like to stand for the local council . |
| 14 | It had always , I think , been assumed that I might try to get to Oxford , and history ( by an equally mysterious process ) became the subject of my choice . |
| 15 | ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you . |
| 16 | Imagine my excitement , therefore , when it seemed recently that I might have stumbled across it in the shape of the Tower House in Malmesbury , Wiltshire . |
| 17 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 18 | But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 20 | I came here sweating thinking that I might have to do some work |
| 21 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 22 | I hope that I might have undertaken work of this kind without the experience of working for North Tyneside Community Development Project ( CDP ) from 1974 to 1977 , but I did and that experience shaped both the conceptualizing and the carrying out of this project . |
| 23 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 24 | I listened with astonishment to the view that I might consider loving my cancer , for it did remind me that all was not well with myself , and not just physically . |
| 25 | P C would have had a revolver that I would expect to have been drawn . |
| 26 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 27 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 28 | What will tend to happen is for example , erm , in my section to deal with public courses , I would have information about the venues that I 'm going to use this year , I would have information about the mailing lists I 'm going to use , and information about the mailing lists of my office I 'm going to use , I would have prospects that I 'm going to call , you know , it 's all stuff that I would tend to plan out on a pad of paper and then insert into the particular data section , and refer to as I need to . |
| 29 | I obviously I from what was coming out you probably could n't work out very much to help you but nonetheless I know that I would want to do that as a person . |
| 30 | Erm , nothing Chair that I would want to refer to other than the , on page eleven we 're showing a figure there for management and support . |