Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that this [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course I realized that this would be a pretty gratuitous move , under the circumstances . |
| 2 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 3 | I imagined that this might have been done to obliterate a directional ‘ fix ’ to throw treasure hunters off the scent . |
| 4 | One of these areas was an arable field that had been rolled flat , and I felt that this would provide a good opportunity to experiment with the machine 's settings . |
| 5 | I gathered that this would be a bad thing . |
| 6 | ‘ To this day I have not played much Chinese music , and certainly not a concerto , and so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to explore that — a least to give Hsiao the encouragement to write one . ’ |
| 7 | a customer comes in and he was my wife I did n't have er beard then I was clean-shaven , because after coming to this country when I could n't get a job , I thought that this might be a bar so , which was n't right , but we did it . |
| 8 | Some months ago I suggested that this could be done in a new version of Question Time . |
| 9 | Well , well , I su I suggested that this will be helpful , which it will be , will it ? |
| 10 | I explained that this would make no difference as the results would be the same , whether the past lives were real or simply figments of her imagination . |
| 11 | Within seconds of the stalls going up , she realized that this would be a problem . |
| 12 | In terms of female users , this can be particularly tragic as in the following case , where the woman did not seek treatment because she assumed that this would eventually lead to the placing of a care order on her children : |
| 13 | At the time , she imagined that this would help her study immeasurably . |
| 14 | She knew that this would be a black cloud hanging over her for the rest of her working life . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm just coming , ’ called Lydia , thinking how amusing it would be to make a big splash and drowning noises , but even she knew that this would not be the action of a nice woman . |
| 16 | Dawn was advised that she might obtain more money if she went to court , but she felt that this would be too hard for her emotionally , even though she had no memory of the accident or indeed of the friend who had died . |
| 17 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
| 18 | We suspected that this might have been because Coventry did n't score . |
| 19 | All of them knew that this could mean only one thing : Aenarion was going to draw the Sword of Khaine , take up the Widowmaker , to wield the ultimate and deadly weapon . |
| 20 | They speculated that this may be related to the fact that patients are referred with chronic or refractory conditions that have proved difficult to treat in general practice . |
| 21 | There was a glimpse of barbed wire stretched across the water and they guessed that this must surround a cattle-wade , like the one in the little brook near the home warren . |
| 22 | The Lebanese being quite short and Waite being quite tall , I guess they thought that this would show if Islamic Jihad was treating him right . |
| 23 | The CC C P Par army was a quarter the size of the K M T and had little money and no tanks , therefore it needed mobilization of the peasants in the villages , they needed the peasants to volunteer to join the P L A and to protect their own property so they thought that this would be an incentive for them . |
| 24 | They thought that this could reduce duplication and ensure better utilization of resources as well as guaranteeing greater consistency across different branches of the same service . |
| 25 | However , they conceded that this might prove expensive and not particularly effective in the battle against dishonesty . |
| 26 | On the proposal in Recommendation 18 to set up a committee to advise on priorities for grant-aid , he argued that this would help to keep the WEA on its toes , true to its traditional concerns for rigorous study of subjects appropriate to understanding contemporary society . |
| 27 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Boyd said listlessly , and then , with more animation , as he realized that this might be a good moment to break his news to his family , he added : ‘ Yeah , I did . ’ |
| 28 | He admitted that this would involve ‘ a change in mentalities , ways of thinking and prejudices , all of which have a long history ’ . |
| 29 | He noted that this would reduce the risk of accidental or inadvertent conflict between the superpowers , aid the depolarisation of regional conflicts , and raise both states in the eyes of the non-aligned nations . |
| 30 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |