Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [that] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 2 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 3 | Indeed it was one of the most shocking stories of police corruption and legal incompetence I had ever read , and believing that I had the ability to rectify it , I decided , whatever my other commitments , that I must bring it to public notice as soon as possible . |
| 4 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 5 | As we walked to the restaurant I felt miserable , foreseeing argument and dissent and wishing that I possessed the charm and the experienced polish to ease the tension between these people . |
| 6 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 7 | Perhaps my basic thoughts were externalized by reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky , and realizing that I had a basic Napoleonic complex . |
| 8 | I was in charge of the rummage crew , and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others . |
| 9 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 10 | Oh I know but saying that I think my kiddies ' school 's all right so I 've got |
| 11 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 12 | If , when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at |