Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
| 2 | I thought that it was probably some stupid village prank , but that I 'd better get in as soon as possible in case something odd was happening . |
| 3 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 4 | Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could ! |
| 5 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 6 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 7 | But , confessing to the odd moment of scruffiness , he pointed out : ‘ I have to admit that I do still like the comfort of shorts and a T-shirt . ’ |
| 8 | Some of the horror stories that I hear are horrendous , but I want to tell you three issues that I do actually know about . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , Miguel , you say these things in such a serious voice that I do almost believe you . |
| 10 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 11 | What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it . |
| 12 | It was three years later that I did finally audition , at seventeen . |
| 13 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |
| 14 | These tests established exactly what they had done before ; namely that I did indeed have an exceptionally accurate visual memory . |
| 15 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 16 | No the one that I did really want |
| 17 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 18 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 19 | Well yesterday apparently he told her that she had better turn up this morning cos of her excuses . |
| 20 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 21 | She looked at his imploring face , and felt a stab of guilt , that he was right , that she 'd better take care … . |
| 22 | In a letter dated 19 November , the Lord Advocate said that in Scotland ’ Civil actions are raised in the Court of Session or Sheriff Court Mrs. would have to establish first of all that she does indeed have a right to raise an action arising from the unfortunate incident of which she has complained . |
| 23 | But then when you think that she did actually bite Mason ! |
| 24 | ‘ Well , if I am , Mrs Hamilton certainly must be , ’ she told him seriously , not wanting either of the doctors to see that she did indeed find the responsibility she was about to take on quite daunting now that she knew the full scope of Faye Hamilton 's problems . |
| 25 | ‘ So do we accept that she did merely close it later ? |
| 26 | Suddenly everyone seems to be talking about the menopause so we thought that you 'd better hear what women really think . |
| 27 | ‘ I think that you had better go , ’ Sally-Anne said — and she remembered with pride that she had not given an inch , had shown no emotion as her life had crumbled around her . |
| 28 | indicates that you had better shorten your sentences or use less elaborate words or both . |
| 29 | And not only that you 've only got ta |
| 30 | Yes , I I do n't think that the this is bigoted as you think though in getting that kind of letter , I mean it seems , er that the civil service er recruit on that basis every year , and er , there is no guarantee if you get through the , the various screening bits that you do actually end up with a job , because that depends on vacancies coming up . |