Example sentences of "that i [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to think that I ought to do everything and then at least I could n't blame myself for not having done enough . |
| 2 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 4 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 5 | It was not simply terror that I might invade his study and his solitude ; it was terror that I might invade his heart . |
| 6 | It was not simply terror that I might invade his study and his solitude ; it was terror that I might invade his heart . |
| 7 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 8 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that I might marry him . |
| 9 | ‘ I had asked my mother one evening to cut my cheese entire , so that I might toast it , ’ he told Tom Poole : |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , ’ Simone said gently , ‘ that I might find him very attractive , despite all your dark and desperate misgivings , but it 's not mutual . ’ |
| 11 | His face is n't cruel , and I 'm relieved to find no attitude there that I might find myself kicking against . |
| 12 | I was fearful that I might find you down another alley . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When I spoke of your circumstances , it was only in the belief that I might understand your plight . |
| 14 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 15 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 16 | Looking around the sparsely attended Chamber , I had a feeling that I might catch your eye sooner or later . |
| 17 | As I screwed up my eyes against the dazzle , trying to see the creature so that I might describe it to Crispin , it vanished . |
| 18 | The possibility that I might starve myself to death was never raised : instead I was scolded for looking like a scarecrow , and my mother told me that she was ashamed to be seen with me . |
| 19 | It seems to me that I might have my hands busy during a fight , so I 've taught this one to answer to sounds , and to react to the pressure of my thighs . ’ |
| 20 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 21 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 22 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 23 | For instance , I admit freely that I would expect my desktop publisher to be able to flow and reflow copy from one column to another automatically ; that seems a basic requirement for general-purpose DTP and PagePlus ca n't do it . |
| 24 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 25 | Another dream that I had several times was that I would sacrifice my life to save others . |
| 26 | One of his little projects was that I would send him down some very promising people from the Royal College to teach in the West Riding . |
| 27 | All of them would live more happily if they and the world remained in ignorance , and to try to achieve that I would give them the one gift I could . |
| 28 | I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up . |
| 29 | I thought that I would start my own trend , an all-in-one suit . |
| 30 | I had wagered a purse that I would beat him at bowls and Drake never could resist gold . |