Example sentences of "to the [noun] that i " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I thought I had become used to being alone , and to the idea that I would always be alone , but I was wrong . |
| 2 | But David had always worked by himself , so I had got used to the idea that I would never play with him , much as I wanted to . |
| 3 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 4 | Members opposite must get used to the idea that I shall read out what their Front-Bench spokesmen have said about fund holding . |
| 5 | I have made it clear to the people who work there and to the management that I am against the encouragement of tobacco addiction and in favour of measures which will prevent the use of tobacco in public places . |
| 6 | I wake to someone xylophoning up and down my spine , and to the discovery that I am no longer the only customer in the massage room . |
| 7 | Remarks made by the Senior Management Team about the value of these ‘ minutes ’ in the absence of their own , points to the possibility that I may have slightly biased the proceedings by asserting my interpretation of events . |
| 8 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 9 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 10 | I expressed my gratitude , but explained to the Queen that I must ask leave to go away and see if I could form an administration . |
| 11 | The figure that the hon. Gentleman is quoting from the newspaper article bears no relation to the figures that I used , which constituted the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could give of the numbers required to carry out the policy . |
| 12 | The Minister referred to the figures that I gave on regional assistance . |
| 13 | ‘ Now I 'll go back and tell that silly little receptionist what a silly little toad he is too and if he does n't turn over the keys to the apartment that I booked and paid a deposit on I 'll scream all the way to his boss . ’ |
| 14 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 15 | I was so close to the water that I was already beginning mentally to enter their world and to feel their dramas as my dramas . |
| 16 | Within days , for instance , I 'd broken up with my girlfriend , because things came to the surface that I had been neatly burying away for years . |
| 17 | I explained to the man that I could not carry cheese to my appointment but that I would be back another day . |
| 18 | I was proving to the convenor that I 'd made a mark opposite that deliverance on which to call you . |
| 19 | ‘ On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should . |
| 20 | On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should |
| 21 | As a practising manager scanning and trying to make sense of the environment surrounding my particular enterprise , I came , too , to experience a high degree of frustration with , and scepticism about , the very notion of scanning ; and great concern as to the bias that I might introduce if I tried to communicate my conclusions to others ! |
| 22 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 23 | But we now have erm following research by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in relation to the document that I have described as appendix eight . |
| 24 | The dead German sitting with his back to the wall that I had passed earlier on had slipped from his position , and was now lying with his blond head in the ditch . |
| 25 | ‘ But I still cling to the hope that I 'm mistaken , ’ Steve went on seriously , ‘ that I was n't in love and it was in fact infatuation . ’ |
| 26 | What Abraham receives instead is a command , ‘ Go from your country and your kindred and your father 's house to the land that I will show you ’ , and promises : ‘ And I will make of you a great nation , and I will bless you , and make your name great , so that you will be a blessing . |
| 27 | In Joshua chapter one , in verses two and three , Moses my servant is dead now therefore arise , cross this Jordan , you and all his people to the land that I 'm giving to them , to the sons of Israel . |
| 28 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |
| 29 | I think that feeling has got to be dispelled and it 's for these points that the , for these reasons the government needs to turn its attention a little bit more er to the issues that I that I have raised and I would refer in conclusion Madam de deputy speaker , the minister to the Bank of England 's er memorandum submitted to the treasury and civil service er select committee in its report published on eighth of December last year when at page a hundred and eighty five they draw attention to the European directives that the minister himself referred to . |
| 30 | The same applies to the examples that I discuss in chapter 4 : some of these show gross differences between social groups on the basis of hundreds or even thousands of tokens , which would not be apparent without quantification . |