Example sentences of "[to-vb] that i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been very good , and I wish I could explain things , but I must ask you to accept that I ca n't . |
| 2 | ‘ Why is it so hard to accept that I could feel all that too ? ’ |
| 3 | I can ask you to accept that I should n't have come to you like this if I did not believe that the matter may turn out to be very grave indeed . |
| 4 | If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ? |
| 5 | , I just want you to know that I shall never change , but I also want you to allow me to come home now and again for a few days . |
| 6 | Every thing was alright , though it rather took the wind out of my sails to know that I would n't get to speak to him after all . |
| 7 | In recent years , it 's been nice to know that I could decide to take my wife Lizzie on Concorde and not have to ask permission from the bank manager , but I 've never really gone in for extravagances — they all add up to too many paper rounds . |
| 8 | It may surprise you to know that I could see things from your point of view there . |
| 9 | It made me feel good to know that I could see him and he could n't see me , and that I was aware and fully conscious and he was n't . |
| 10 | I 'm all right , it 's just , with that interview meaning so much to me and everything else , I just wanted to know that I could forget all about it , and concentrate all my energies on Barney . ’ |
| 11 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 12 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 13 | The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat . |
| 14 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 15 | I like to know that I can paint a hand or fingernail in great detail , almost photographically in contrast to areas of detail . |
| 16 | They did n't know what he was so excited about , and his father was disgusted to find that I could n't draw a footballer ( an unKerridgean species ) . |
| 17 | ‘ To begin with I was distressed to find that I could n't extract more than ten words from Dowayos at a stretch … |
| 18 | It pleases me because I was afraid music was being pushed out by computers — and I was chuffed to find that I could still ‘ work ’ the pedals after more than 50 years ! |
| 19 | It is gratifying to find that I can not only look good , but I can look respectable too . |
| 20 | I do n't seem to fed the same urge to wander that I used to . ’ |
| 21 | He did n't actually talk about it to me — I suppose he knows me well enough to guess that I 'd have dug in my heels . |
| 22 | ‘ Finally , I wish to observe that I can see no inconsistency between English law on this subject and article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 23 | ‘ Finally , I wish to observe that I can see no inconsistency between English law on this subject and article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 24 | I wish to observe that I can see no inconsistency between English law on this subject and article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 25 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 26 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 27 | I hate to see that I must say . |
| 28 | Nenna thought : I 'm pleased for him to see that I can make a proper job of something . |
| 29 | For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue . |
| 30 | I began to realize that I would probably — hopefully even — end up in my dotage , still playing Joyce from a wheelchair in a Home for Distressed Thespians . |