Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am being set up in the ward and it occurs to me that I am feeling fine . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that I was watching a play . |
| 4 | James and I continued to go out and have lovely times together , but after a couple of years it slowly began to dawn on me that I was expanding . |
| 5 | A harassed young intern assisted by a cool , pretty nurse ( called Ruth , from Stanmore ) told me that I was bucking the statistical trend by having three fingers smashed between the knuckle and the phalangeal joint . |
| 6 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 7 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 8 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 9 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 10 | ‘ Then one day it dawned on me that I was running scared and it was silly . |
| 11 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 12 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 13 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 14 | At Gateshead Frank informed me that I was going to run in the B relay team at the meeting , and I refused . |
| 15 | played rather a dirty trick on me because he did n't tell me that I was expected to make a speech . |
| 16 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 17 | I mean , th the other aspect of the , of the fif the other aspect of the , the brewery and me that I was talking about , er I 'm thinking about is that we we could do with you know , okay those , th those figures are I mean , unless they 're really realistic it 's gon na be you know , six months or so |
| 18 | I think its because erm I do n't , I 'm not happy with mine because it it shows signs of ageing and it reminds me that I 'm getting older and I do n't like that |
| 19 | You never miss the chance to remind me that I 'm living under your roof , do you ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So I 've arranged for a whistle-stop tour around the country houses of some influential contacts , and there are one or two long-standing debts and favours due to me that I 'm going to call in over this weekend . ’ |
| 21 | Every time you look at me like that it just reminds me that I 'm cheating you , short-changing you . |
| 22 | I would like to apologise to everyone concerned and reassure them that I am doing everything to resolve the matter of refunds . |
| 23 | I 've told them that I 'm hoping to replace their old hard-hat helmets with this new scuba equipment , but they think I 'm joking when I tell them they wo n't have any hoses to the surface . " |
| 24 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 25 | I normally explain to them that I was writing a book about the school and they certainly understood that . |
| 26 | I normally explain to them that I was writing a book about the school and they certainly understood that . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've told them that I was fighting Franco and he 's a Fascist the same as Hitler , but once these fellows get an idea in their heads they just do n't listen . ’ |
| 28 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 29 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |
| 30 | ‘ It is because of you that I am living here in peace . |