Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] that i be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened to others ' crises but did n't want to accept that I was in the middle of my own . |
| 2 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 3 | I began to think that I was in an isolation hospital , until I realised that nothing at all happens after six o ‘ clock until breakfast next morning — not even a hot drink except in emergencies . |
| 4 | Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling . |
| 5 | I start to explain that I 'm from the Cabinet Office . |
| 6 | She 'd been trying to prove that I was on drugs since I was fourteen . |
| 7 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |