Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It irritates me that I ca n't think of enough rare foods I have n't had and have wanted to have . |
| 2 | ‘ I seldom come out of my pulpit ’ , said Baxter , ‘ but my conscience smiteth me that I have been no more serious and fervent … |
| 3 | ‘ It upsets me that I still have this ‘ enfant terrible ’ reputation . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ It amazes me that they can just stand on the street . ’ |
| 5 | It amazes me that they do n't use it , they do n't use the media in some way . |
| 6 | I also take the American Freshwater and Marine Aquarium , and it amazes me that you can buy , for instance , a pump which sells for in Britain . |
| 7 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 8 | It still amazes me that I — an arts graduate — do this job . |
| 9 | It amazes me that there are still some people who equate morality with Christianity . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , it amazes me that none of you has apparently thought of comparing the print-outs of yesterday with today 's work . |
| 11 | It really worries me that we are being exposed like this . ’ |
| 12 | worries me that he really ca n't carry on like that . |
| 13 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 14 | Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are . |
| 15 | If it worries you that you have to type or select options from menus in the File Manager , then BeckerTools will overcome most of these problems . |
| 16 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 17 | It is little compensation to know that no fewer than six earned themselves the VC ; myth has it that they were all won before breakfast . |
| 18 | One view has it that they are the trusted preservers of law and order , men and women who do a difficult job very well and who deserve to be respected and admired throughout the communities which they protect . |
| 19 | Report has it that they have now virtually committed racial suicide , declining to accept the deplorable standards of modern literature and paper . |
| 20 | But beware — the Black Night 's ghoulish cohorts are everywhere , and rumour has it that they 've been dabbling in the dark arts … |
| 21 | The decision to relinquish the lease may have been forced upon them : story has it that their landlord , Colonel Lindsay , had been angered by tales of a young man spitting out of a window into a frying pan held by Minton in the garden below . |
| 22 | Oh rumour has it that her husband was in the forces |
| 23 | Legend has it that it was here that Yusuf met his death beneath the hooves of his enemies , steeds ; here also that El Cid received a fatal wound . |
| 24 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 25 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
| 26 | Rumour has it that it is not his child . |
| 27 | This view , though , has implications for the public sector where convention has it that it is the role of the politicians and not the officials to determine goals and take responsibility . |
| 28 | has it that it should be seventy from the future . |
| 29 | ‘ I have no idea as yet , but rumour has it that you are . |
| 30 | Legend has it that he used to angle in the Adige river and that when the waters flooded , many years after his death , they were stopped from breaching the walls of his church by prayers to his memory . |