Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |
| 2 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 3 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 4 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 5 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 6 | You ken when there , there are , this , this old Mary that I tell you about er , she 'd had smallpox when she was young , she used to be a herring gutter . |
| 7 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 8 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |
| 9 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 10 | It it 's one of those unfortunate things that I mean I think we 've we 've got to look around and see what we can do about . |
| 11 | None in the conventional sense that I take it that you mean mark down you mean clearing merchandise |
| 12 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 13 | ‘ Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen , it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to the magic of television … ‘ |
| 14 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 15 | Question ten is a very involved question that I think we wo n't look at now . |
| 16 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 17 | Well a very ordinary thing has happened there , but it has happened on such an extraordinary scale that I think it 's worth saying . |
| 18 | That 's the sort of unconscious bias that I think we 're talking about where |
| 19 | He takes good care that I see it . ’ |
| 20 | In the end , it 's on that rainy promenade that I see her . |
| 21 | But in the severe turbulence that I encountered I had no control over my canopy and there was very little that I could do . |
| 22 | Let me tell you of some of the important stories that I believe we have covered inadequately — and in some cases not at all . |
| 23 | The most important duty that I owe you , the reader , is that I be absolutely honest and candid , and therefore , although I have no doubt that the growers will not like me for saying so , I suggest that unless you aspire to the show bench , or base your gardening on taking chances , you should not heed the blandishments but look instead for the shortcomings . |
| 24 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
| 25 | You are angry , vulnerable , gentle , fierce , with such bewildering speed that I find it fascinating . |
| 26 | The only issue that I think we have some er difficulty with in the policy as it stands at the moment , is the uncertainty that arises between the figure provided in policy I five of forty six hectares for the city , and actually our agreed calculation which I think the County Council accept , that site availability in the city is limited to something in the order of thirty three hectares if we exclude er one site which is subject to a dispute between parties er in relation to the greenbelt . |
| 27 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 28 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 29 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
| 30 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |