Example sentences of "[vb base] that i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | wanting , you know say that I sent away for erm |
| 2 | I am sure that I am not alone when I say that I learned more through the Iii-service courses organised by Basil Rocke than through my entire period of earlier , formal training . |
| 3 | ‘ Now do you believe me when I say that I did n't touch you in order to prove some theory about your boyfriend meaning nothing to you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed not to be doing the film , ’ Crawford added , ‘ but I would rather that people remember enjoying my performance in the play than say that I did n't quite pull it off in the film . ’ |
| 5 | Solanki had told the Lok Sabha on March 30 that " I now regret that I handed over this note " but that " neither I nor my ministry instructed the Swiss authorities to stop or impede investigations into the Bofors case " . |
| 6 | But I would wake up , startled and guilty , horrorstruck that I had somehow managed to allow myself to get out of control . |
| 7 | ‘ If you mean that I worked hard to make my own money , then yes , I did . |
| 8 | I hope that I did not give the impression that a Bill could be amended in any way at all as that is not so . |
| 9 | I do not wish in any way to criticise you , and I appreciate that I applied today to ask such a question — |
| 10 | And I recall that I laughed aloud at that stage and I believe ( the agent ) joined me in that . |
| 11 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |
| 12 | I know that I went there when the change I have spoken of must have been already complete . |
| 13 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 14 | Erm and I think it 's exactly the same with some of the words that you know that I quoted earlier . |
| 15 | ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed . |
| 16 | I only know that I did n't . " |
| 17 | ‘ I know that I did n't make a mistake when I heard my telephone ringing last night . |
| 18 | But while I think it intrinsically unlikely that any of my co-habitees , if I my so describe them , should have committed murder , and I know that I did n't , I do n't know that I can help you very much . ’ |
| 19 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 20 | But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that . |
| 21 | Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it . |
| 22 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 23 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ You really believe that I came here to cause trouble , do n't you ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 26 | Anybody that could read Dispatches and believe that I did n't suffer anything , I do n't know what they 're reading . |
| 27 | And I tell you anoth another thing that I find that I blocked out from my mind sometimes , that 's the sound of central heating , particularly fan assisted heating . |
| 28 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 29 | So the basic assumption is that the developmental process is failure-driven : actions are continually failing to fulfil the assimilatory intention ( recall the term Functionlust that I used earlier ) and must therefore be modified . |
| 30 | If this conviction arises through my preaching , it is frequently through some phrase or thrust that I had not intended . |