Example sentences of "[pers pn] that i [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me that I would make my living with words . |
| 2 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 3 | It seems to me that I might have my hands busy during a fight , so I 've taught this one to answer to sounds , and to react to the pressure of my thighs . ’ |
| 4 | This process of acknowledging a person 's power bases is called legitimization — the recognition by me that I will allow you to affect my behaviour . |
| 5 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 6 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 7 | This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew J B Priestley a bit and he once suggested to me that I should do what he did in the Thirties , which was to take a trip around Britain talking to people . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ I think you 're trying to tell me that I should remember something of this . ’ |
| 10 | So I had to try to prove to them that I could manage him . |
| 11 | Sir , we are much obliged to you for your consideration upon this matter , and I assure you that I shall do my best to avoid in the evidence which I shall give and in my other remarks apparently proposing a washed-over status for the village as a whole . |
| 12 | And believe me when I tell you that I 'll do whatever I have to do to make you stay here . ’ |
| 13 | Erm , first of all I did promise to you that I 'd give you some idea of the sort of material would be on next week 's erm multiple guess questions , okay ? |
| 14 | ‘ And I do n't need to tell you that I 'd appreciate your whole-hearted co-operation this evening . |
| 15 | Did I not tell you that I must keep you well and visible for my own protection ? ’ |
| 16 | If I tell you that I can rid you of the damned spots will ye do what I say ? ’ |
| 17 | I pressed my father 's hand and told him that I would protect his grave with my life . |
| 18 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |
| 19 | I had promised him that I would look her up , convey his admiring regards , and perhaps even bring him back a signed photograph of Miss Dragonette . |
| 20 | Daddy 's I wan na tell him that I 'll tell him that |
| 21 | Go and telephone Sir Bryan and tell him that I 'll have his clubs back to him by midday . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I made it quite plain to him that I could find no-one in mid-Essex who wants this unloved road , ’ said Mr Burns . |
| 23 | I told her that I would do her large-animal work for her … ’ |
| 24 | I wrote to Mrs. X to inform her that I would take her case up with Ministers at the Ministry of Defence . |
| 25 | It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat . |
| 26 | Tell her that I shall keep it until I am an old man . |
| 27 | But , we 'll take it that I 'll see you , not next week , but the week after . |
| 28 | But anyway , they allowed this that they did n't have any further use for it that I could have it . |
| 29 | So absorbed , or intoxicated , was it that I used to photograph it with the other hand . |