Example sentences of "that i [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 32 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 33 | ‘ Why did you insist that I go to work for you … ? |
| 34 | ‘ You 're suggesting that I go to him ? ’ she 'd hissed . |
| 35 | This could be expressed as ‘ A hospital is a place that I go to in order to get treated by a doctor . |
| 36 | Why is it lately that I go to , before I start my my work |
| 37 | and there is so many people smoking where , in the pubs that I go to and I do n't have it cos I think it looks disgusting I come here and because we go around in like threes and it 's , you know , |
| 38 | I do that new bit cos it 's hard that I go through it about eight times . |
| 39 | I mean , I think it 's terrible and , and I mean , if Mr Lilley himself went into some of the houses that I go into and see the the existence that they live , because that 's all it is , you know , it 's just an existence . |
| 40 | That we could not condone , and Gill Davies insisted that I go over there [ to the interviews ] and make the point , which I did very forcibly I thought . |
| 41 | Except that I hope to God they let Sam go . ’ |
| 42 | It seems that I count as a visitor . ’ |
| 43 | Quite often , the first clue that I get to old age anxiety is when a mature dog is referred to me with , what appears to be , an ‘ out of character ’ separation anxiety . |
| 44 | I give all the children vitamin drops that I get from the clinic but I sometimes wonder whether they 're really necessary . |
| 45 | I mean I can understand why they do and I like the stuff myself , but I do n't share the belief that I get from all sides that impressionism is what art should be like normally . |
| 46 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 47 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 48 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 49 | Is it really any more rational to deny rather than affirm — am I , for example , sure that I mean by God what a religious person does , because if I do not then my dismissal of God 's existence rests on a logical non sequitur . |
| 50 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 51 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 52 | But also that any who might peruse this essay from a research perspective will feel that I have not been too cavalier in the implications that I draw from the results of their studies . |
| 53 | And I said , ‘ Well , why did you read it , it 's hardly a secret that I write about sex . ’ |
| 54 | He suggested that I write about poor women , and the only way in which I could honestly do that was to go and live among them , and I knew that you and Uncle Orrin would never agree to that . |
| 55 | It is with the greatest possible pleasure that I write to you once more , this time to confirm that your Company 's independence has been preserved after a battle which has lasted over nine months . |
| 56 | It could read something like this : It is with continued concern that I write to you about the suffering of the Cambodian people and put forward the following suggestions re where government aid should be concentrated . |
| 57 | I 'll cooperate as far as I can , on the understanding of course that I remain in control — full control — of anything to do with my project . |
| 58 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
| 59 | There 's other types of music that I listen to that do make my hair stand on end and they do n't have a single guitar in them ! |
| 60 | Say you put a foot wrong , are you not game to be coursed and spoiled , like other women , that I listen to you like a craven creature as I am ? ’ |