Example sentences of "[verb] [that] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The first move will be to alert all my known contacts , to request that I be held incommunicado if I approach any of them … ’ |
2 | This is to let you know that I am leaving you . |
3 | I find it wise to let people know that I am writing , that I need solitude . |
4 | Little did I know that I was hooked . |
5 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
6 | He did n't know that I was meaning the blood in his mouth and he said : ‘ You have bitten half your tongue off . ’ |
7 | My mother nearly died when she saw the mess but little did she know that I was going to do it all again the next day . |
8 | I did n't know that I was going to have to sell my house for twenty five thousand less than all my neighbours were selling at . |
9 | He made me know that I was growing old , and that everything he was was slipping out of my hands . |
10 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
11 | I mean , I do n't always know that I 'm coughing all the |
12 | I shouted that I was going to call the police . ’ |
13 | I have stressed that I am taking a particular linguistic phenomenon , deixis , and examining its occurrences and behaviour in a specific genre . |
14 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
15 | Well it was something that you hear a lot about it and er I 've never done anything about it and it 's cos I 'm starting to think towards the future and it 's gon na be nice to know that I 'm gon na have a pound or two to go and do what I want when I retire . |
16 | Alice Conway almost jumped back into her kitchen as her daughter swung round now and yelled at her , ‘ It may surprise you to know that I was thinking about you and Father and this house , and the business downstairs . |
17 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
18 | During which time I found that at the worst all Englishmen stuck together in regard to the West Indians … it was like a thorn in my heels to know that I was working in an atmosphere of hostility . |
19 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
20 | Trippy was not really interested in my financial situation ; he was just checking that I was paying for dinner . |
21 | But then with an ever deepening sinking feeling inside I realise that I am bound for failure once again . |
22 | ‘ Please believe me , this is my obstinacy — you are behaving honourably , honourably — I realise that I am jeopardising my chance of great happiness — but we know — both of us — there are times when the greatest danger has to be faced , the greatest risk taken because that small persistent voice will not allow us to escape our duty to ourselves . |
23 | Erm it 's in Leeds erm and they know that I 'm going but I may need to call them and say that I 'm sending somebody else because I ca n't possibly go anywhere during the day on Wednesday . |
24 | Des transmits that he found me , and I say that I 'm going over to the flats to see what 's happening , but both Des and the radio warn me off . |
25 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
26 | Years later when I saw John Sayers of West New Houses for the last time before he unfortunately died , I mentioned that I was planning to start riding my bike again , and he was most amused . |
27 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
28 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |
29 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
30 | I found that I was trembling . |