Example sentences of "[v-ing] that i [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It taught me a lesson about drinking and driving that I 'll never forget . ’ |
| 2 | I can remember walking away , swearing that I would never do this again , feeling physically sick . |
| 3 | No matter that I had no experience , I had rehearsed this role for years , blocking everything out — right down to the way I would sit , ministering to the words of the desired object — yet never believing that I might actually perform . |
| 4 | I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta . |
| 5 | By ( b ) I 'm not of course implying that I would necessarily agree with the judgement that pure theory is no use but I think that 's the way the students see it . |
| 6 | I 'd rather have the doctor saying that I ca n't go home rather than me signing myself out . |
| 7 | Erm he come in about that so we wrote a letter saying that I wo n't do the job for ninety pound , but I 'll stick to the original |
| 8 | I 'm not saying that I wo n't win World and Olympic titles , just that , at this time , I can not conceive of myself achieving that time . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying that I would n't say |
| 10 | Years later , when I was with Sandford in the Second World War , he told me that people in Addis Ababa had been saying that I would not have one chance in ten of survival if I entered Aussa . |
| 11 | I remember mum saying that I must not let anyone near the suitcases or accept a parcel to take with me and post it when I got to our destination . |
| 12 | You are saying that I will not ride there , or open a hollowing , or step down through a cave , but must find the threshold to a journey inwards . |
| 13 | He was very stern in saying that I should not exceed 4,000 rpm in any gear . |
| 14 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 15 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 16 | I have to face the fact that , now we have a mortgage and want to start a family , I 'll never enjoy the year off travelling that I could n't afford before university . |
| 17 | ‘ He died knowing that I would n't come , ’ she whispered . |
| 18 | They were among many things that disappeared after I left Cairo in 1953 , not knowing that I should not return . |
| 19 | I mention these examples thankfully — they are all to do with spiritual direction and have brought learning that I might never have received within one tradition alone . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm guessing that I would n't want to know . ’ |
| 21 | Erm , I 've been thinking that I ca n't chair this meeting and take the notes and things when it becomes , and if it , the fund comes through and it becomes the audio description project as opposed to this group , and you know we will be widening out a little bit , I wonder if we should actually have a chairman type person . |
| 22 | I 'll admit from the start that my own attempt to arpeggiate the Gambale way sounds more like Sooty than Sweep picking , but I console myself by thinking that I should n't let a signature model impose another player 's personality on my own style ! |
| 23 | After years of thinking that I could not draw or paint , I decided to have a go . |
| 24 | I keep on thinking that I can even smell her perfume . |
| 25 | Realizing that I may well end up the whipping boy if things go wrong , I attempt , in bankers ' parlance , to ‘ cover my ass ’ . |
| 26 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 27 | Then her face changed and she told me something so terrible , so strange , so annihilating that I ca n't remember a word she said . |