Example sentences of "thing that i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the only thing that I would suggest is |
| 2 | Any other thing that I would do now , I think , would be a violation of God 's will for my life . |
| 3 | The one thing that I would want to draw your attention to is paragraph three , er , point seven , where you 'll see that the costs of running The Beeches , during the period of , of transition as it were , was five thousand eight hundred and thirty , of which a maximum of three thousand and seventy six may be recovered from the residents . |
| 4 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 5 | I think I think the only thing that I would disagree with there is that I strongly suspect that a lot of tutors in the university , not just women tutors but across the board , really have little idea of the level of sexual harassment that students that female students have identified as being problem in the questionnaire . |
| 6 | The only thing that I would ask everybody in Oxfordshire is to write to our M P's here because er yes it 's true that I do n't know what the returns are from last night 's voting , but I do know that er the only local MP that I can see on the voting on the last occasion was John Patten , here in Abingdon , and he voted no . |
| 7 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 8 | The , the only thing that I would say Chairman is that erm planning and er er the role of planning is related amongst other things to development and every single solitary er element in development has an effect , maybe only small and it may be distant , but does have an effect on er water falling as rain and thereby on run-off . |
| 9 | I think the thing that I would say to parents : ‘ You may be anxious , you may be concerned . |
| 10 | The second thing that I would like to know is what happens if I put larger tyres on my vehicle , it has the standard crossply 's at the moment . |
| 11 | There is another thing that I would like to ask . |
| 12 | The second thing that I would like to recommend to you on behalf of the instrument ACTS is the Scottish christian gathering which will take place this year from Friday the twenty sixth of June to Sunday the twenty eighth of June at Saint Andrew 's College . |
| 13 | Now that is the type of thing that I would like to see come back for legal opinions on that statutory responsibility , the level of it , and the reasons for it . |
| 14 | But one thing that I would share with you and it 's this , is that whenever the friends of Jesus eat and drink together they remember him his sacrificial love for them and the wonderful gift of freedom that he has made possible . |
| 15 | The only thing that I might need a medical for is my thirty thousand pound life insurance . |
| 16 | I thought that the best thing that I could do , anticipating the worst , would be to start on one entitled Italy 's Betrayal . |
| 17 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 18 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 19 | So there is only one thing that I can do . |
| 20 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 21 | ‘ The closest thing that I can compare it to is the film . |
| 22 | ‘ You are being very naughty , ’ McAllister whispered back , pretending to be severe , ‘ and the only thing that I can say in your favour is that I am in nearly as bad a way as you are , and know exactly how you feel — but be patient , it can not be long now , ’ for she knew that once the bazaar was over , and she was at last able to tell him the truth , they could go ahead with their marriage plans , the only delaying thing being the time it would take Mama and Papa to cross the Atlantic . |
| 23 | Well how about we prepare something , the sort of thing that I can photocopy ad nauseam and give round er conference guests who turn up , for example , which says you know something like , please help , we are doing linguistic research , we want to make recordings , |
| 24 | The only thing that I will do , that he might do , he might keep , cos once gets away mate that 's he might keep him behind . |
| 25 | In fact Barbara was saying to me er wh why do n't you er but it 's not the thing that I 'd want to do . |
| 26 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 27 | And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme . |
| 28 | Right erm oh yes one other thing that I 'd like to mention . |
| 29 | The other thing that I 'd like to go back to . |