Example sentences of "that i [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue . |
| 2 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 3 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 4 | Here is a signature that I know to be genuine , on a document guaranteeing his overdraft of over twenty years ago , signed in my presence . |
| 5 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 6 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 8 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 9 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 10 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 11 | And we stood there , me with a great big frown on my face , quite mystified that William could n't see what I was getting at … and William smiling but looking equally puzzled that I appeared to be incapable of understanding what he meant . |
| 12 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm gon na do that I want to be free . |
| 14 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 15 | I find that I have to be honest with Mary and many others . |
| 16 | Everything which is now taking place confirms that I have to be careful , very careful , even to the extent of disowning some of my earlier work if necessary . |
| 17 | Curiously enough , once Don was on , he took over so naturally and hilariously that I forgot to be frightened , had a thoroughly rumbustious time and breezed through the remainder of the show . |