Example sentences of "[that] i [modal v] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 2 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 3 | Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ? |
| 4 | Eventually she believed my protests that I would prefer Filipino fare ; it appeared — embotedo , lumpia , bulabula — all in a toasted sandwich . |
| 5 | Naturally , I hope Heather is alive , but , if she is , she has every right to expect that I will observe absolute confidentiality where her medical history is concerned . |
| 6 | If you persist in interrupting me , it is unlikely in the extreme that I will have sufficient time to give you the complete picture which you say you are so anxious to get ! |
| 7 | An anorexic may tell her friends or parents , ‘ I 'd like to be slim ’ , and , if pressed for a reason , may reply along the lines of , ‘ So that I can wear nice clothes , date good-looking boys , and generally have a good time . ’ |
| 8 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ The men think that I can do disappearing tricks , too ! ’ thinks Carl . |
| 11 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 12 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 13 | Hall , annoyed at being seeded No.2 to Baddeley even though he is the present No.1 , refused to labour the point : ‘ I wanted to prove to everyone that I could play good badminton , not to show the seeding committee to be at fault , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He argued that I should treat other people 's wants and needs as constraints upon the satisfaction of my own . |
| 15 | I know that it would be the wish of my constituents that I should convey heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved and the injured in their grief and agony . |
| 16 | I understand that I should quarantine newly-purchased Koi before introducing them to my pond . |
| 17 | ‘ I told him this was a murder investigation , that I 'd adopt other methods to trace his employer . |