Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 2 | I made use of their terror for my own amusement , and raising my voice still more , I shouted at him whom I assumed to be present , lying invisible in some corner … |
| 3 | Well , I I need to be sure on this . |
| 4 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 5 | The distortion on the unit , which I expected to be awful , is actually very good , although I do n't think it quite lives up to Ibanez 's claim that the unit could serve as a preamp , when linked to an amplifier . |
| 6 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 7 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 8 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 9 | ( All matters which I judged to be vital and contemporary ! ) |
| 10 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 11 | The first tends to refer mainly to the military context which , while obviously important , is not what this book is about ; and the second is clearly state-centrist , and does not fully convey the scnse of hegemony where it does not directly involve the state , which I take to be crucial . |
| 12 | From her rises that familiar scent which I take to be human . |
| 13 | This portion of the ocean 's surface was also inhabited by storm petrels , but of a distinct species from any I had hitherto observed , and which I believe to be new to science . |
| 14 | I hate the idea that only the well-to-do will have the possibility of instrumental teaching ; it refutes everything I believe to be just . |
| 15 | Keeping some sort of balance is something I suspect to be close to the corporate heart of Switchboard , though usually unspoken . |
| 16 | Anyway , I met Salinger in London to go over the story with him and confirmed those parts of it I knew to be true . |
| 17 | Yes , I want to leave early tomorrow , because I 'm , I 'm not going to rush for a train , I do n't want to be caught thinking oh the last train to Stow Market goes at four o'clock and I 've got to run for it I got to be prepared to miss the train . |
| 18 | Now that 's what I mean about being dishonest . |
| 19 | I was glad to find the original material in what I took to be splendid condition , still clearly bearing the marks of the sculptor 's chisel . |
| 20 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 21 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 22 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |
| 23 | What I , and I having heard the director , what I want to be clear about , is that any decision which relates to closing local schools on , on economic grounds comes to the full county council , and is , is not dealt with by education . |
| 24 | My friend has his own sauna and spends what I consider to be excessive amounts of time in the sauna cabin with temperatures over 80 degrees centigrade . |
| 25 | I said at the time what I thought was right , and I stick all through to what I believe to be right . |
| 26 | Now , as I said , my own investigation of DNA strands revealed what I believe to be specific intelligence and personality factors in Briant Bodies Gamma and Delta . |
| 27 | Oh no I think I 'd want it to be comfortable , but I 'd also want it to look well what I considered to be nice . |