Example sentences of "[adv] that i [be] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it 's just that I 'm missing you … |
| 3 | If I was setting an exam paper for summer it would be something I would think about putting in not that I am setting it in case you think I had n't . |
| 4 | Not that I am encouraging you , mind . |
| 5 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 6 | Please understand — it 's not that I 'm doubting you in any way . |
| 7 | Not that I 'm blaming you . |
| 8 | ‘ They put together a group of people like Take That ! , who did n't even know each other until they formed — not that I 'm knocking them , because they 've got more front than we have — but it 's not going to work unless it 's real , ’ gripes Tony . |
| 9 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 10 | Eventually I interrupted the diatribe to point out that I was paying him to take me to the newspaper , not for his opinions about it . |
| 11 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 12 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 13 | It pleases me that she called me my darling and not my little prodigy as she once did ; this is the best sign yet that I am winning her back . |