Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [that] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had some difficulty in persuading him that I had not even seen , let alone read , the book , either in manuscript or in print . |
| 2 | And if it does n't seem to be there ask Phil because , you know that is that only by asking him that I discovered that these worked last week . |
| 3 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 4 | Try ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention ’ or ‘ I love it that you 've asked me to go away — it 's bothering me that I 've got to do this report by Monday . ’ |
| 5 | ( a ) ‘ I love it that you 've asked me — it 's bothering me that I 've got to do this report by Monday . ’ |
| 6 | I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems . |
| 7 | I can remember my grandfather , in the 1940s , telling me that I had a good bump of location . |
| 8 | He started knocking me about and telling me that I had to bring in this or that amount of money . |
| 9 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 10 | I mean is this your is this your polite way of telling me that I need a bath . |
| 11 | Cos they keep telling cos I owe them so many hours they keep coming up to me and telling me that I owe them so many hours , you signed the contract saying you 've got whatever happens . |
| 12 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 13 | I wrote to the Health Education Authority telling them that I did n't think their advertisements would affect lifestyles much , if at all . |
| 14 | ‘ I remember telling you that I wanted nothing more to do with you ! ’ she snapped . |
| 15 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |
| 16 | I had to stop myself telling her that I had another party to go to on Christmas evening — just so I could stay home after everyone had left and stuff my face with leftovers . |
| 17 | But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me . |
| 18 | I enthused about my imaginary prowess in the language , telling him that I hoped to visit Africa that summer . |
| 19 | It was no good telling him that I had seen five prolapsed uteri in pigs in my limited experience and had failed in every case . |
| 20 | ‘ My father then received a letter from my Troop Officer telling him that I had managed to shoot down two Junker 52 's and helped to sink a landing craft ’ . |
| 21 | It 's the discussing it that I want too . |
| 22 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
| 23 | IT 'S not just because we 're serialising it that I recommend Jack Ashley 's autobiography . |