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 . |