Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] i [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I happened to mention that I did n't much like my sister 's husband . |
| 2 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 3 | I have to say that I look pretty damn good . |
| 4 | I would hasten to say that I have never yet had the misfortune to operate anywhere which possessed all these undesirable features , but every one of us has seen some of them , or combinations of them in different circumstances , and everyone knows , from their own personal experience , how demotivating these characteristics are . |
| 5 | Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one . |
| 6 | Well when Margaret suggested er doing a project on French polishing , I had to admit that I did n't really know what French polishing was . |