Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] that i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I say , I ca n't remember anything , but I 'm told that I did seem to enjoy annoying Old Saul , the bandy-legged and ancient white bulldog my father kept — I 'm told — because it was so ugly and it did n't like women . |
| 2 | I was flattered that I 'd been chosen , but at the same time pretty scared . |
| 3 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 4 | I was so sure I was drowning that I forgot about the race and screamed out , " Father ! |
| 5 | Nevertheless , I was told that I had ‘ contributed nothing constructive ’ to the life of either the house or the school . |
| 6 | On a recent visit to the Midland Bank in Southampton to ask about opening a current account I was told that I needed some form of indentification . |
| 7 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 8 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 9 | You 're suggesting that I damaged your car deliberately . |
| 10 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 11 | ‘ My father 's old housekeeper — he and she grew old together — has a daughter who needs to make money ; , she lives in Nile Street , and if you were to say that I sent you , she might well be glad to put you up till it is time for you to go to Oxford . ’ |
| 12 | Just do n't let it be said that I did n't warn you , that 's all . ’ |
| 13 | And if it 's discovered that I spent most of my childhood in care , then reporters could make enquiries and turn it into a big thing . ’ |
| 14 | At eleven it was understood that I washed the breakfast things and scrubbed the kitchen floor before I started my homework . |
| 15 | In those days I was known as ‘ Horse ’ because it was said that I galloped , so the cries from team-mates Mike Powell and Ossie Cham were ‘ Come on , Horse ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Because it was felt that I had got to know you two a bit yesterday . |
| 17 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 18 | When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple . |
| 19 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 20 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 21 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |