Example sentences of "[pron] [that] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I that it was you . |
| 2 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
| 3 | How do you know , how do I that I am a Christian ? |
| 4 | I have to say , that the the year wo I that I 'm reporting on now , nineteen ninety , ninety-one was actually better than we had originally planned and expected , and in fact , that we did eliminate the deficit in that year . |
| 5 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 6 | Anne is abroad at the moment , doing some research , but she left a message with someone that I 'm to give her a ring when she gets back . |
| 7 | Especially if it , especially if it 's someone that you 're snogging as well . |
| 8 | Mildred was now faced with the impossible task of convincing someone that there was an elderly magician in the pond . |
| 9 | These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority . |
| 10 | Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive . |
| 11 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 12 | Someone that he was trying to forget . |
| 13 | Even if we can convince ourselves that nobody is getting hurt , even if we are sure we are not cheating , we have a suspicion that it is inappropriate . ’ |
| 14 | It is perhaps once again necessary to remind ourselves that we are not merely concerned with the behaviour of adults . |
| 15 | We must therefore resist any temptation to read a book on doubt like a medical dictionary , or before long we may convince ourselves that we are suffering from every variety of doubt . |
| 16 | However , we have to remind ourselves that we are using a byproduct of other wind sports , and hope that , like kite flying , they too prosper ! |
| 17 | However , if we kid ourselves that we are all sweetness and light , then our angry and hateful Shadow will manifest itself elsewhere — in other people , in our view of the world , in our body , and in dreams ( perhaps as a dark , shadowy figure , or a thoroughly unpleasant character ) . |
| 18 | If we daydream while going through the motions of reading we can still recognise words , and perhaps even convince ourselves that we are reading . |
| 19 | In order not to obliterate its intuitive meaning , and yet satisfy ourselves that we are not falling into a subtle trap , we denote the constant polynomial ( a , 0,0 , … ) in J[x] once again by |
| 20 | We 're articulate enough to fool ourselves that we 're nice people , but there 's a strong undercurrent to our thinking that encourages us to view people with a disability as lesser , and until we come to terms with that , we will never have a proper support system . |
| 21 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 22 | It is always necessary to urge caution in the interpretation of examination results and to remind ourselves that they are only one measure of a school 's success . |
| 23 | For if at moments we can convince ourselves that Shakespeare is the discourse of power , we should remind ourselves that there are usually other discourses — here the notes and vocabulary and maps — that are instrumentally far more important . |
| 24 | By looking at the world through progressively defocused and focused binoculars , we can quickly convince ourselves that there is a graded series of focusing quality , each step in the series being an improvement over the previous one . |
| 25 | By progressively turning the colour-balance knob of a colour television set , we can convince ourselves that there is a graded series of progressive improvement from black and white to full colour vision . |
| 26 | We must again remind ourselves that there was more than one episode of dinosaur extinction when food and dietary factors have had equal relevance , although each succeeding ( and changed ) species seemed to be better fitted to an ecologically evolved environment . |
| 27 | All we had to do now was satisfy ourselves that there was enough wreckage to warrant returning for a full-scale excavation . |
| 28 | After we 'd satisfied ourselves that there was sufficient prey I went off to walk the terrain . |
| 29 | Try as we might to tell ourselves that it 's ‘ what 's on the inside that counts ’ , we have very little evidence to show that it 's true , and inside and outside can become confused , so that we feel bad on the inside but believe that if we altered what 's on the outside ( our bodies ) we could change how we feel . |
| 30 | We tell ourselves that it 's something we should be starting on " one of these days ' . |