Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] that i [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He lay face down beside me , not knowing that I was now painfully aware that the threads which bound me to home and the inevitable marriage had snapped once and for all .
2 ‘ I was also thinking that I was not feeling very well , I 'm tired , I do n't want to be here .
3 I stand here , I am not a perfect minister because I am over forty I 've got children that are not too awkward but erm , could be awkward and , I have n't a spouse ah and ah I stand here saying that I 'm not good at everything I 'm good with young people , I 'm not o only good with old people I try to do my best .
4 ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’
5 So it seemed better that you should go on thinking that I was just — ’
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