Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Silas is still longing to go to bed with me , so you can wish me luck that I 'll get him there eventually — but in the right circumstances , of course . ’ |
| 2 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 3 | I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’ |
| 4 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 5 | ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless . |
| 6 | It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her . |
| 7 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 8 | I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough . |
| 9 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 10 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |
| 11 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 12 | The sea-mail letter arrived this afternoon , and my hands shook so much when I retired to my tent that I could hardly open it … |
| 13 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 14 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 15 | My precious work , my mainstay that I carried everywhere with me — even into hospital — was about to be taken away . |
| 16 | It was at this stage of my search that I started to find lead weights . |
| 17 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 18 | ‘ There have never been any thoughts in my mind that I would get something from the Government . ’ |
| 19 | It flashed through my mind that I was close . |
| 20 | ‘ It crossed my mind that I could push open the door and drop the dinghy myself , but I soon realised that the workload would be far too heavy , flying as low as intended for the drop . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've made up my mind that I do n't want to play league no mater what the money is ’ — WILLIE OFAHENGAUE ( Wallaby flanker ) . |
| 22 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 23 | There was no doubt in my mind that I would go out and prove myself and answer all those questions about me . ’ |
| 24 | Once having framed the thought in my mind that I was a lesbian I found myself unable to keep silent about it . |
| 25 | There is no doubt in my mind that I can be the player I was before I got injured . |
| 26 | It was with this old — and , to my mind , unresolved — dispute at the back of my mind that I came to write ‘ Hylas Fights Back ’ . |
| 27 | But it 's so far back in my mind that I ca n't reach it . |
| 28 | But I had made up my mind that I must not get emotional , so I hid all my feelings . |
| 29 | I have so much more important concerns on my mind that I am hardly fit for anything , or to wish for anything than to receive the last releasing stroke . |
| 30 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |