Example sentences of "[that] i [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan . |
| 2 | I was so impressed with the ‘ Rule Breakers ’ article by Alastair McIver that I just had to write in with my opinion on the subject . |
| 3 | I said that I just happened to have my travelling rod with me … though it hardly mattered as they had more than enough gear . |
| 4 | Again something that I just have to put . |
| 5 | ‘ The staff really care , and I have learnt that I just have to take things easy . ’ |
| 6 | With the Hillbillies project , I enjoyed doing the record so much that I just wanted to do a little tour . |
| 7 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 8 | And it was in this way that I clearly began to hear the call of God . |
| 9 | It seems that I pay an extremely small price for a program from the supplier , and that I also have to pay the author if I wish to use it . |
| 10 | I was so excited to see you again that I completely forgot to ask what 's happened to your business . |
| 11 | The psychiatrist 's theory was that I simply had to come to realise that becoming a ‘ complete man ’ ( which presumably included being heterosexual ) would not involve any risk to life or , more importantly , limb , that I was a ‘ complete man ’ . |
| 12 | I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 . |
| 13 | ( Of course , for my friends to stand a chance of receiving any correspondence from me means that I either have to wait for the guilt level to rise sufficiently ( which is a slow process ) , or to unearth other things to put on my list like ‘ Install central heating ’ and ‘ Decorate bathroom ’ . ) |
| 14 | Erm , the , the only other item on , on the budget book at the , that I particularly want to draw members ' attention to , is , are the pink funds , which are . |
| 15 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 16 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 17 | Well the only people that I actually need to write to are managers or agents and I mean I give them a print out of what I do every day |
| 18 | Then , when I was about 18 or 19 I figured that I 'd learned every rock guitar lead that I ever wanted to know — all my favourite Ulrich Roth solos and all my favourite Frank Marino leads . |
| 19 | ‘ Now that I never thought to ask . |
| 20 | My little son , that I never hoped to see again ! " |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't believe that I never stopped to think that Amber , four , was in the room , too , when I started punching her father , ’ Gail recalls . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes I feel that I never want to see it again . ’ |
| 23 | The only mail I get from Czechoslovakia is a junk mail actually , it 's all about some wine club that I never want to belong to , but erm , if Darwin had only opened it , er do n't throw it away , it could be , it could be th it could be the paper from that will save you infinite trouble . |
| 24 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 25 | The damage that I once managed to inflict was to bend on of the metal strips away from the needle . |
| 26 | After struggling with one of Ruth 's imaginative scenes , I was so relieved when Basil let me attempt to paint a spray of wheat and barley stalks that I almost began to enjoy myself when he made some encouraging remark about my very tentative effort ! |
| 27 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 28 | This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it . |
| 29 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 30 | I was so frightened by this thought that I hardly dared to breathe . |