Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [that] i [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
2 | do n't think that 's , that means that I do n't think . |
3 | I must be honest and say that I do n't think I 'll ever run that fast . |
4 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
5 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
6 | My mother would often phone up around 5 am when I lived near her , and demand that I come over and cook her dinner . |
7 | My husband , who 's 41 , hates the fact that I smoke and moans that I eat too much . |
8 | I have to own up and say that I do n't really like applications wanting to be installed into the Windows directory , but because of the way Windows handles wallpaper bitmaps , there 's little option here — the lot has to go there . |
9 | I have often wondered where they do come from but confess that I have absolutely no idea . |