Example sentences of "[noun sg] that i be [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | When I awoke this morning , I felt a teeny twinge of regret that I was still here . ’ |
2 | I wake to someone xylophoning up and down my spine , and to the discovery that I am no longer the only customer in the massage room . |
3 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
4 | He added that he himself must ‘ inevitably live with the knowledge that I am now more likely to develop cancer ’ . |
5 | He seems completely secure in the knowledge that I 'm far too soppy to do him any harm . |
6 | I escaped with a few scars and I have no doubt that my greatest support was the knowledge that I was n't economically dependent on my family . |
7 | There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position . |
8 | In 1893 while recovering from a bout of influenza he wrote You will see from this heading that I am not dead yet , nor likely to be . |
9 | I sometimes think that 's what wakes him — an obscure sense of loss , an occult awareness that I am no longer conscious . |
10 | Because I knew that I had my weaknesses , perhaps that is the reason that I was not more successful . |
11 | ‘ I know I 'm no angel , Robyn , I know my temper gets the better of me at times , but you must understand the pressure that I was under too . |
12 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
13 | Over the last year or two my playing has deteriorated to the extent that I am now virtually a one-fingered guitarist ! |
14 | This causes problems eating and drinking to the extent that I am now too embarrassed to go to restaurants , or even to my local pub . |
15 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
16 | From her flustered expression and the fact that I was n't instantly told to mend my manners , I knew she felt guilty . |
17 | Well then my parents would have to accept it would n't they , they would have to have face face face up to the fact that I was n't already married . |
18 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |