Example sentences of "that i [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 2 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
| 3 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
| 4 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 5 | — it gives out with some mess that I might normally eat but now it sort of blows away and there 's a whole muddle of emotion in my … |
| 6 | imply that I might soon have funds . ’ |
| 7 | It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles . |
| 8 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
| 10 | ‘ Has n't it occurred to you , Skeeter , that I might not want to ? |
| 11 | ‘ My wife thinks I might be risking all my credibility by coming back and that I might not get another job in football . |
| 12 | ‘ I had rather expected before I went that I might not be taken seriously as a woman . |
| 13 | Some like the Sandvik Sandplate have introduced me to products that I might not have otherwise tried . |
| 14 | I knew that one day I might be asked to walk on the edge of knives like the little mermaid , and was afraid that I might not be able to bear the pain . |
| 15 | It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand . |
| 16 | I felt as if I was under a terrible spell , and I trembled , afraid that I might not be able to escape . |
| 17 | He says that I might not need to get it right ? |
| 18 | ‘ But did it not occur to that massive conceit of yours that I might not want to make love to you ? ’ |
| 19 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
| 20 | He says that I might not need to get it , right , because , if , he can only tell half my blood . |
| 21 | I felt scared that I would be seen as crazy — that I might even go crazy : that I would begin to see little green men , jump off a tower in the belief I could fly , or just sit in a corner humming ‘ Om ’ . |
| 22 | Now I miss the tie with Portugal at Ibrox next month , and there 's a hint that I might even be out against Italy in November . |
| 23 | I think he was frightened that I might unwittingly say too much — that if I knew everything , I 'd be more likely to guard my tongue ; be part of the conspiracy . ’ |
| 24 | No matter that I had no experience , I had rehearsed this role for years , blocking everything out — right down to the way I would sit , ministering to the words of the desired object — yet never believing that I might actually perform . |
| 25 | I realized that I might actually have a sin . |
| 26 | It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’ |
| 27 | What did you expect to gain from coming here , Fran — that I might suddenly decide to make a full confession ? ’ |
| 28 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 29 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |
| 30 | Like you now , I felt that I might never come back . |