Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb base] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 2 | What I mean is that you will find little use for the basic ‘ one — pause — two ’ sequences of block followed by counter-attack . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I suppose what I mean is that Richard is someone I would never have introduced to my parents — and he is someone I had quite a … sexual relationship with . |
| 4 | What I mean is that if he gets hit in the body anywhere , any place above his balls , he is dead , no dispute . |
| 5 | No what I mean is that er once the item is in production if you wish to order another hundred drop tanks or another thousand drop tanks if you make that order then approximately one year later you would receive deliveries of those tanks against that order . |
| 6 | ‘ What I mean is that you have already told me , ’ he cut in sharply . |
| 7 | ‘ What I mean is that I wish I could snap my fingers and suddenly there 'd be a band playing some soft , slow music . ’ |
| 8 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
| 9 | Yeah but would they , what I mean is that there are even for the parents |
| 10 | I know , but what I mean is that when they see the city centre , the people who are walking up and down the city centre , they see all the national charities , they do n't necessarily feel that they 're organised in the same way and therefore that they should be participating , and the whole palaver of getting a licence and applying is actually quite difficult , it 's not a simple , it 's not something , we get numerous telephone calls in the office saying ‘ Well can I go out next Saturday and rattle a tin for such-and-such ’ , and you say ‘ Well , you ca n't ’ , and it 's left much too late , so that people do n't know about the way you get licenses to rattle tins in city centre . |
| 11 | What I fear is that A-levels will be diluted without at the same time lengthening degree courses , particularly mathematical ones , to maintain standards . |
| 12 | What I like is that I can feel the movement and it all gets transmitted to the fingers . |
| 13 | ‘ What I regret is that we did n't force the bank into this situation 15 months ago when we first approached it over the demerger . |
| 14 | What I maintain is that there are certainly moments , like the Rococo , which go very far in general preference for certain forms , such as lightness , grace and playfulness . |
| 15 | Now what I recommend is that you always use the F version of any of these diagnostic test statistics and we can go on to look at the others erm in a moment . |
| 16 | I mean , what I want is that she shouts and I shout and she shouts back , then I say I 'm sorry and put my arms round her , then we kiss and make love maybe , and in the end we 're both real people again . |
| 17 | He noticed the one bagpiper like I did , and what I say is that we were meant to . |
| 18 | ‘ What I suspect is that someone has deliberately caused delays in delivery of leather and has been undercutting your father 's prices . ’ |
| 19 | What I suspect is that he was inspecting the binding and moved the candle to study it more closely to see if there was a gap between the cover and its backing : underneath the candle flame the writing must have appeared . ’ |
| 20 | In fac I , from what I understand is that you 've got a problem with shortage of workload . |
| 21 | If if I I think what I what I would like to say What what I think is that E Ten Erm it 's very difficult to make this point , since it 's an approved policy in an an approved structure plan , but I think E Ten 's got it wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ What I see is that men are adapting well and , if anything , are leading this corporate transformation . |
| 23 | So what I suggest is that we |
| 24 | Er , which I think is , is excellent , and what I suggest is that we look at trying to get exposed in some of the professional journals really . |
| 25 | I told her how much I disliked Katherine Mansfield as a personality , and she faintly rebuked me : ‘ What I feel is that we should be so grateful to her . ’ |
| 26 | So what I propose is that we put the notion of happiness back in its box and restrict ourselves to the word ‘ happy ’ , which people do in fact use in everyday circumstances . |
| 27 | What you mean is that we might bang into things or kick a detonator on the nose or something of the kind . |
| 28 | ‘ What you mean is that my uncle will tell me what to say . ’ |
| 29 | Now if you start analyzing the composition of sea salt , or the salt in , in sea water , what you find is that there is a remarkable constancy in the ratio of one element to the other . |
| 30 | So , for example , what you find is that they 're a number of features are detected by the feature demons , such as straight lines , which are either vertical , horizontal , at an angle , angles that intersect at ninety degrees , half circles , small circles , so they it was hypothesised that there were a number of feature detectors that erm were detecting features early in the pr the perception process When these features were detected or , well when these features were detected , this information fed into cognitive demons which started to respond . |