Example sentences of "[that] i [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am not so complacent that I would say they wo n't become a formidable competitor but for now they are not , ’ Jonathan Martin , head of sport at the BBC , said . |
| 3 | ‘ And Ianthe and Mr Stonebird ’ — ‘ Rupert ’ did not quite come out-'live so near that I dare say they can escort each other , ’ said Sophia . |
| 4 | That I 'll check I 'll check that one out . |
| 5 | As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood-sport — ‘ We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first-rate sport ’ — the ‘ anti-garotte ’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti-robbery device . |
| 6 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 7 | Moved by an ancient sentiment as she cradled the dress , so that it lolled in her arms like someone drowned , she said that she was glad she had a daughter to wear it ; and I said , politely , that I could see it must be a pleasing economy . |
| 8 | And at the end of that fifty thousand years , if that 's what it is , the populations are sufficiently different that I 'd think you 'd want to put them into a different species if — I mean how are you to know , but I mean it 's a reasonable judgement . |