Example sentences of "[verb] that i be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | This is to let you know that I am leaving you . |
2 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
3 | ‘ Please believe me , this is my obstinacy — you are behaving honourably , honourably — I realise that I am jeopardising my chance of great happiness — but we know — both of us — there are times when the greatest danger has to be faced , the greatest risk taken because that small persistent voice will not allow us to escape our duty to ourselves . |
4 | Erm it 's in Leeds erm and they know that I 'm going but I may need to call them and say that I 'm sending somebody else because I ca n't possibly go anywhere during the day on Wednesday . |
5 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
6 | I looked after my mother I was the youngest of our family , and I did n't consider that I was doing something unusual , it was my duty . |
7 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
8 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |
9 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
10 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
11 | ‘ I thought I 'd explained that I 'm doing it because I want to . ’ |
12 | Well on , I do it the right way , because I do n't always feel that I am doing it the right way . |
13 | ‘ You would n't feel that I was letting you down if I did n't go to veterinary college ? ’ she asked — and felt the happiest she had done in weeks at his reply . |
14 | I quote from my account of it in a letter to Elizabeth , ten years later : it will be seen that I am answering her questions . |
15 | ‘ I can not believe that I am hearing you aright , my darling . |
16 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
17 | You get to hear that I 'm sharing my house with a five-foot bombshell who can make a grown man go weak at a single glance , and you leap to the obvious conclusion . |
18 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
19 | I 'll pick a different slot each week and get the jock on duty to announce that I 'm doing it . ’ |
20 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
21 | It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are . |
22 | Er no when you erm you know that I was telling you keep your bit of used up erm sandpaper fly paper |
23 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |
24 | I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more . |
25 | Just say no you 're doing that I 'm doing it . |
26 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
27 | The children responded well , and at last I felt that I was achieving something . |
28 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
29 | So like when I said that she knew that I was teasing her when I said in , in that tone of voice . |
30 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |