Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [to-vb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just wanted to let you know that I intend to resign my post at the District . ’ |
| 2 | It was when I started having health and financial problems that I began to re-evaluate my life , and I could see that it was an appalling misery . |
| 3 | It 's tragic — there 's a chap along this road that I like to keep my eye on and it 's as long as it 's short — to lose your eldest boy . |
| 4 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 5 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 6 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 7 | It was clear , then , that I had to choose my moment wisely . |
| 8 | Now it was an atrocious stench that infested the windless air , a nauseating compound of decomposing flesh and excrement , so revolting that I had to hold my nose and breathe through my mouth . |
| 9 | Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him . |
| 10 | I do n't know why ; only that I want to hear my voice on the answerphone . |
| 11 | I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy . |
| 12 | The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin . |
| 13 | I get the feeling that I begin to know my way around , to know at least most of the chess moves of it . |
| 14 | I get the feeling that I begin to know my way round , to know that at least most of the chess moves of it . |
| 15 | It is for this reason , following on from Freud and Szasz , that I propose to treat my patient as a text . |
| 16 | Before I call the Home Secretary , I should say that I understand that a notice of appeal has now been lodged but that I propose to exercise my discretion in respect of the sub judice rule to allow questions covering the Home Secretary 's statement . |
| 17 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 18 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 19 | He thinks it 's fun to hang onto the back of my coat with a grip of iron , so that I have to take my coat off and pry him loose . |
| 20 | Do I appreciate that I have to lead my group to see the story as symbol ? |
| 21 | Actually , that definition of an operator proves to be a bit too general so that I have to narrow my choice somewhat , in a way I shall describe shortly . |