Example sentences of "[to-vb] that i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 2 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 3 | Sooner or later I would have to accept that I needed to look elsewhere . |
| 4 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 5 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 6 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 7 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 8 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 9 | When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple . |
| 10 | They were trying to insinuate that I belonged with the psychiatric patients . |
| 11 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 12 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 13 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 14 | Since I refused to acknowledge that I understood a word of Czech or German , I just shrugged my shoulders as they droned on . |
| 15 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 16 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 17 | I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry to report that I behaved rudely at this point . |
| 19 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 20 | I said once that I wanted to make love to you , not go to bed with you , and I seem to remember that I emphasised the point . |
| 21 | It was difficult to remember that I had ever thought of him as a schoolboy . |
| 22 | I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’ |
| 23 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 24 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 25 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 26 | ‘ But it probably will surprise you to hear that I managed to resist the temptation to indulge my talent for marriage-wrecking and confined myself to one already divorced man and one bachelor . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't want to marry Syl , ’ I said , surprised to hear that I had spoken aloud . |
| 28 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 29 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 30 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |