Example sentences of "that i [modal v] [verb] " 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 said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 3 | He was also sure that I ought to mug up as much as I could about Italy . |
| 4 | He rang off and I realised that I ought to leave shortly since Jack was due to tee off at midday . |
| 5 | ‘ Only that I ought to ask some of my old friends , people like Madeleine Corley , if I could be allowed to join them , but … |
| 6 | I had told Ron , who was with me in Rome , that I had n't seen the point in attending the practice , but he had persuaded me that I ought to attend . |
| 7 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 8 | I have something very important that I ought to do . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ' ’ I have a feeling that I ought to sit back — one chooses too often — that the next move is not up to me . ’ |
| 11 | And and the final thing that that that I ought to say is is that i if i it has a hangover to what 's going to be said later today . |
| 12 | learn my trade that I ought to stay here and put something back into the industry again . |
| 13 | Dr. Lorrimer told me that I ought to find out all I can and not just look on this job as routine . " |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | That does not excuse the fact that I ought to have found out otherwise . ’ |
| 17 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " Dr. Lorrimer — he 's the Principal Scientific Officer in charge of the Biology Department — says that I ought to work for an A-level subject and try for a job as an Assistant Scientific Officer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Some of my friends have been frightened into no longer wanting to smoke , others have faced the facts but are reconciled to being fonder of smoking than they are afraid of cancer , but I myself yield to the temptation to smoke although convinced that I ought to abstain . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought , ’ she said , ignoring her father 's advice to treat him with kid gloves , ‘ not that it 's any business of yours , that I might potter into Nice for the day . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Now as I said , I 'm perfectly aware that the only proper and permissible response on the part of any young climber worth his or her salt to any views that I might hold , is that they 're those of an irredeemably antiquated never-was-been . |
| 27 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 28 | ‘ Were you perhaps hoping that I might fail to keep our appointment ? ’ |
| 29 | I 'm not planning to try so hard for it that I might break down . ’ |
| 30 | As always I got up at once so that I might cherish the ninety minutes until we assembled for work — minutes that were mine — not the authorities . |