Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [that] i [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gervase , you have perhaps noticed that I have never removed my underpants in your presence . |
| 2 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I 'd better prove that I do n't always forget about normal times for refreshing the inner man , ’ he drawled , but there was such a twinkle in his eyes , so much charm in his manner , that Fabia felt quite overcome by it . |
| 4 | I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . |
| 5 | Thank you very much , I can only say that I have always felt it a privilege to be part of N C V O. Er , I have enjoyed my time enormously and if I 've had any role that I feel that I 'm proud of , it 's constantly bringing members to mind . |
| 6 | ‘ I can only say that I do n't remember any of this , ’ I said carefully . |
| 7 | Chairman and managing director of John Wood Group PLC Ian Wood agreed with Mr Steadman : ‘ I am glad I did not have the difficult task of judging the competition and can only say that I look forward to adding another series of works to our existing collection at John Wood House . ’ |
| 8 | By that I do n't mean he could n't have been responsible for their deaths , I just mean that I do n't think he 's on speaking terms with his conscience . |
| 9 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 10 | I I I 've already said that I do n't accept that er the French are unlikely to ratify er I think rather the contrary but that remains finally for them er and not for me . |
| 11 | ‘ In any case , I 've already said that I do n't want to fight any more with anybody . |
| 12 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 13 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
| 14 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 15 | This does not mean that I do not believe in the existence of genuine déjà vu experiences — indeed I have already shown that I do . |
| 16 | This does not mean that I do not believe there are issues where principle is paramount ; but there are great many issues where principle is misguided or even hypocritical , and it is a fair accusation that I tend to suspect this more often than most people . |
| 17 | obviously , that erm , I just think that I do n't know , it , it 's very different from . |
| 18 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 19 | That is not to say that I have n't got sympathy for the problem that he 's faced with . |
| 20 | I felt very creative when I was pregnant , very calm and at ease and think that as a result , I produced some of the best work that I have ever done . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Let's just say that I do n't think Bertha would appreciate your particular brand of sympathy . |
| 22 | Here he is , at the outset , reporting from Brussels : ‘ You must not imagine that I live richly here , for my chief food is dry bread and some potatoes or chestnuts which people here sell on the street corner , but by having a somewhat better room and by occasionally taking a somewhat better meal in a restaurant whenever I can afford it , I shall get on very well … . |
| 23 | We can already say that I mean there there obviously there 's a lot of talk now about erm taxation towards towards resource taxes and those sorts of things which the Green Party were saying you know fifteen years ago or something . |
| 24 | Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ? |
| 25 | But for me , soon after the operation , there occurred something so removed from anything I had ever experienced that I have never forgotten it . |
| 26 | I need hardly say that I do n't care to have things so . |
| 27 | I would also stress that I do not claim any special archival expertise . |
| 28 | Will he also recognise that I have never believed that there are no Tories in Scotland , for one Tory has spoken for Conservative respectability in Scotland , and he is the hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) ? |
| 29 | ‘ You probably imagine that I do n't . |
| 30 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |