Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [that] i [be] " in BNC.

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1 The 35-year-old , who has collected 13 major trophies with the Anfield club , said : ‘ I have slowly realised that I am not in Liverpool 's plans for the future . ’
2 All the reports I had done to do with my mental state have all said that I 'm not crazy , and yet I was diagnosed as a psychopath and bunged in Broadmoor .
3 This , I thought , rather an excessively sympathetic comment — I had only said that I was very sorry that Roger [ Hinks ] had been transferred .
4 They have apparently agreed that I 'm simple-minded .
5 I stood there , enjoying these strange new thoughts and passions and suddenly realized that I was shorter .
6 I was so aggravated that I was prepared to believe Brenda on the switchboard was lying on his behalf , pretending there was no reply .
7 An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good .
8 My children will have already guessed that I am referring to a brandade .
9 I trust you have not forgotten that I was [ in Isse , Destouches 's 1697 pastorale héroïque ] your conducteur at Fontainebleau , when the king heard it .
10 Holmes had told Stapleton that he would return to London , but he had not said that I was going too .
11 On the way to our initial meeting I had to change trains , and soon found that I was travelling in the wrong direction .
12 ‘ You have still not realized that I am a very rich man .
13 I 've always felt that I was raised in the land of melody but I certainly was n't raised in the land of rhythm so I 'm always attracted to good dance music .
14 ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it .
15 Amazingly , during this trial year nobody ever suspected that I was a womon , though I occasionally got called ‘ poofter ’ .
16 I suppose I 've always known that I was a bit different … do you understand what I mean ? ’
17 When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more .
18 Having seen me she had also seen that I was alone , and watching me from cover as she undoubtedly was , she would assume I was going to the pool to drink as she had done .
19 The self-analysis is disarmingly frank , ‘ Keith Fletcher and Geoff Arnold have both said that I 'm my own biggest enemy , that I do n't believe in myself .
20 And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living .
21 Bernini was arguably the most important architect and sculptor in my period and Charles had effectively indicated that I was not competent to lecture on him .
22 I had n't noticed that I was .
23 Checks with a continuity tester have invariably revealed that I was about to connect the switch incorrectly .
24 I had n't known that I was going to be presented with such a large sum .
25 It is well known that I am a prize fighter by profession …
26 ‘ I have n't yet said that I 'm staying here , ’ she said stubbornly .
27 To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all .
28 Then she apologises , draws hard on a Marlboro Light and says , ’ I 've never felt that I was extraordinary looking , just conventionally pretty .
29 I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms .
30 In the letters columns of The Times , Jewish readers variously suggested that I was ‘ making a serious attempt to undermine the legal basis of Israel 's existence ’ and that the paper had become ‘ a platform for the enemies of Israel ’ .
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