Example sentences of "that i [be] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’ |
| 2 | With regard to having sympathy for them , I would say to the hon. Gentleman that I am one of them . |
| 3 | She permeates me like scent in a room when the lid is liked and the petals stirred , never a memory occasionally summoned but , so totally that I am unaware of it , forming the very fabric of the structure from which I gain my substance . |
| 4 | Revulsion at the thought that I am responsible for it . |
| 5 | But just in case , I am not about to tempt the Grim Reaper by announcing that I am ready for him . |
| 6 | I do n't mean I should n't — no , I 've got lots of reasons now — it 's just that I 'm uncomfortable with it . |
| 7 | You said yourself that I 'm good for you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I will , because , as you 've felt it necessary to keep reminding me , tomorrow is your first day in a new job , and because I can wait , now that I 'm sure of you . |
| 9 | But it would be a big change , and I do n't know that I 'm ready for it yet . |
| 10 | I have to say that I 'm mad about her too . |
| 11 | It 's not that I 'm worried about you I 'm just saying |
| 12 | them so much that I 'm worried about it 's the policy holders which I Mr |
| 13 | I said my say : ‘ It 's not that I 'm angry with you , or that you 've done anything wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ It did n't matter that I was bored without you ? ’ |
| 15 | I suppose it 's remotely possible Clare was romantically involved with Jack Cornelius , although it does n't say much for my powers of observation that I was unaware of it , but it 's equally possible Rex Cunningham has simply jumped to the wrong conclusion : he was ever one to do that . |
| 16 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 17 | Nour said ( he really did say it ) that I was disobedient to him to persist in feeding the cat . |
| 18 | It ended up serving four generously — the fact that I was three of them was particularly gratifying . |
| 19 | Not that I was worried about 'er chuckin' me out , I know she would n't do that , but it was only right after all . |
| 20 | It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way . |
| 21 | It took me about three months , perhaps longer , three to six months before I realised that I was dependent on it . |
| 22 | ‘ He is not too happy either that I was ready for him when he cracked the whip . |
| 23 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 24 | She has told you that I was kind to her in the summerhouse , though I 'll assure you I was quite innocent then as now , and I desire you to keep this matter to yourself . |