Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [that] i be [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I fell in love with snooker when I was about fourteen , but when I got to about sixteen or seventeen , I started travelling around and playing in junior competitions and realized that I was very good . |
2 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
3 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
4 | The Gruncher will smell me and know that I am very close . |
5 | He glanced at the paint pot and brush that I was still holding . |
6 | But by my late teens I had come to find this attitude repellent , and knew that I was never going to fulfil my parents ' expectations . |
7 | I had a Morris 10 which went like a bird , and I thereupon conceived the wild idea of rescuing Eliot from London if the danger should seem acute — and assuming that I were still available — and settling him , however temporarily , in the village . |
8 | I do n't understand them and think that I 'm never going to meet anybody nice that will accept me as a single parent . |
9 | I would like to thank the organisers for inviting me to speak at this conference and to say that I am very pleased to be here . |
10 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
11 | You are welcome to call me at home on if you want to discuss this , but note that I am away between the 3rd-19th April . |
12 | ‘ Give her my best , please , but explain that I 'm very busy , that I ca n't possibly — ’ |