Example sentences of "[noun] be that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says .
2 and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say
3 Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ?
4 I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts .
5 The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) .
6 The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not .
7 ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’
8 Sophie smiled at her godmother , then , turning to Joanna , she said , ‘ The point is that I feel you 're disappointed .
9 My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was .
10 My first impression of the JMU was that I hope they do n't visit us , ’ admitted Robert Dicketts , South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants president and partner of Sevenoaks-based Lee Dicketts & Co .
11 Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it .
12 ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him .
13 ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’
14 You can break it but the thing is that I warned her , er , you know , as long as they get through to her hold on that that 's very nicely set up if she twiddles her
15 Although there was not much probability in my case , the answer is that I wish I had .
16 The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’
17 The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop .
18 ‘ You know , the worst thing was that I missed it . ’
19 One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it !
20 All I can say in my defence is that I have nothing now in my life that I would need to hide from you . ’
21 My recurring nightmare is that I circle it for ever , never able to get off .
22 my pain is that I knew you
23 My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train .
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