Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] that i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this conviction arises through my preaching , it is frequently through some phrase or thrust that I had not intended . |
| 2 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 3 | I must be honest and say that I do n't think I 'll ever run that fast . |
| 4 | I have always used a magnetic board and marker to follow the chart and found that I did n't even have to look away from it whilst punching , thus speeding up the whole process considerably . |
| 5 | Then she stoops for some pebbles and warns that I 'd better come in now . |
| 6 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 7 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 8 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 9 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 10 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was so bruised and exhausted that I did not feel strong enough to walk home , and although I did not want to , I had to spend the night at Wuthering Heights . |
| 13 | My mother would often phone up around 5 am when I lived near her , and demand that I come over and cook her dinner . |
| 14 | Anybody that could read Dispatches and believe that I did n't suffer anything , I do n't know what they 're reading . |
| 15 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
| 16 | I found the format patronising and alienating , and felt that I did not belong . |
| 17 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |
| 18 | ‘ And to think that I had specially brought that card all the way from Croisset and did n't even get to put it in place ! |
| 19 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 20 | My husband , who 's 41 , hates the fact that I smoke and moans that I eat too much . |
| 21 | I had a letter from her this morning in which she said she had a bronchial chill and hoped that I fared better . |
| 22 | Or rather , she wanted to say , you talked and ruined my life , I listened and wished that I had n't . |
| 23 | I sucked my thumb and mumbled that I had n't meant to do it . |
| 24 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 25 | I have to own up and say that I do n't really like applications wanting to be installed into the Windows directory , but because of the way Windows handles wallpaper bitmaps , there 's little option here — the lot has to go there . |
| 26 | It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely . |
| 27 | I began by squeezing colour into a small ceramic well palette but found that I did not have enough colour for what I wanted to do . |
| 28 | I have often wondered where they do come from but confess that I have absolutely no idea . |
| 29 | Now I am 74 and think that i understand it but wish that I did not . |