Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [that] i [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Gervase , you have perhaps noticed that I have never removed my underpants in your presence .
2 Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation .
3 ‘ I thought I 'd better prove that I do n't always forget about normal times for refreshing the inner man , ’ he drawled , but there was such a twinkle in his eyes , so much charm in his manner , that Fabia felt quite overcome by it .
4 I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going .
5 Thank you very much , I can only say that I have always felt it a privilege to be part of N C V O. Er , I have enjoyed my time enormously and if I 've had any role that I feel that I 'm proud of , it 's constantly bringing members to mind .
6 ‘ I can only say that I do n't remember any of this , ’ I said carefully .
7 Chairman and managing director of John Wood Group PLC Ian Wood agreed with Mr Steadman : ‘ I am glad I did not have the difficult task of judging the competition and can only say that I look forward to adding another series of works to our existing collection at John Wood House . ’
8 By that I do n't mean he could n't have been responsible for their deaths , I just mean that I do n't think he 's on speaking terms with his conscience .
9 Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work .
10 I I I 've already said that I do n't accept that er the French are unlikely to ratify er I think rather the contrary but that remains finally for them er and not for me .
11 ‘ In any case , I 've already said that I do n't want to fight any more with anybody .
12 I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong .
13 obviously , that erm , I just think that I do n't know , it , it 's very different from .
14 I felt very creative when I was pregnant , very calm and at ease and think that as a result , I produced some of the best work that I have ever done . ’
15 ‘ Let's just say that I do n't think Bertha would appreciate your particular brand of sympathy .
16 We can already say that I mean there there obviously there 's a lot of talk now about erm taxation towards towards resource taxes and those sorts of things which the Green Party were saying you know fifteen years ago or something .
17 Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ?
18 But for me , soon after the operation , there occurred something so removed from anything I had ever experienced that I have never forgotten it .
19 I need hardly say that I do n't care to have things so .
20 I would also stress that I do not claim any special archival expertise .
21 Will he also recognise that I have never believed that there are no Tories in Scotland , for one Tory has spoken for Conservative respectability in Scotland , and he is the hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) ?
22 ‘ You probably imagine that I do n't .
23 I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care .
24 I also know that I sit here , not because of any evidence against me but because of the legal establishment 's concerns for its own pretensions to infallibility .
25 Is that alright , cos then you 've gone away with any ideas you 've got from now which is probably none , er and then it also means that I do n't have to spend next week worrying in case we get to Friday and Thursday and you 're still not sure what you 're doing .
26 So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds .
27 So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds .
28 No , no I can , I can honestly say that I do n't think there was any , any what you can call rough families as I can remember .
29 ‘ No , I think I can honestly say that I have n't . ’
30 Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality .
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