Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret to say that in consequence of the contents having been packed before they were thoroughly dry they are all in a badly mildewed state , so much so that I shall have to dry each specimen individually and remove the mildew with a brush : the smallest of the two large skins has also lost the whole of the wool or hair from the head ; The bottles too not having been properly secured , the spirit has escaped and caused the small boxes to fall to pieces forming an heterogenous mixture of nests , eggs broken and sound , tops , bottoms , and sides of boxes , plants , etc . |
| 2 | I hate to say that about anybody , but she really is . |
| 3 | In a lecture that I gave in Rome I tried to show that in spite of what Thomas Kuhn says ( which has been much exaggerated by his followers ) , you can not write the history of any branch of knowledge , whatever it may be , from a completely relativist point of view . |
| 4 | I want to answer that by looking at what I call ‘ The Proper Purgatory . ’ |
| 5 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 6 | I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) . |
| 7 | As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money , |
| 8 | ‘ I want to hear that from Garry , and I intend to see him , with or without your co-operation . ’ |
| 9 | Evelyn and the others are , indeed , with greater or lesser urgency and awareness , immobile in desperation , but I want to suggest that for Joyce it is not the dispassionate artist 's gaze which alone allows that strange steadiness commentators have called and even tone . |
| 10 | I shall be looking more closely at the implications of this point of view later , but here I want to suggest that in emphasising the importance of reflection Dorothy Heathcote has overstated the case . |
| 11 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 12 | I came to believe that in the S.A.S. he had realised his ideal of chivalry in a contemporary setting ; and that with our marriage and my acceptance of his decision , the two halves of his nature had come together , and for him the enigma of character had been resolved . |
| 13 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 14 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 15 | I forgot to mention that to Becky , but there wo n't be any problem . |
| 16 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 17 | Also , I learned to appreciate that as a critic you say what you have to say and go on to the next thing in LA you never go on to the next thing . ’ |
| 18 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 19 | ‘ I write to confirm that on 5 October 1989 you were represented at the hearing to oppose the plaintiff being granted an injunction preventing you from selling the property . |
| 20 | I need to pop that in |
| 21 | At this point I need to say that in this paper I am concentrating on the bad object relations that can exist between workers and managers . |
| 22 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 23 | And he revealed : ‘ A deal was agreed with Frank Williams before that race in front of a witness and I have to say that at the time I felt very , good about racing again with Williams in 1993 . |
| 24 | But I have to say that at that time I still did n't know , I had a good idea , that it was n't the man we were looking for but therefore he was still arrested and he was arrested on sus well for harbouring an escapee . |
| 25 | Well I have to say that as a result of last night 's session I have a much healthier view of Hydro Electric and I do so would I have got that from the programme ? |
| 26 | Having said that , however , I have to say that from a Christian point of view the Hayekian ( or Friedmanian ) system is fundamentally at variance with what I conceive of as a Christian view of reality . |
| 27 | I have to say that from my point of view — and this is only my point of view — it is not a page-turner . |
| 28 | ‘ At the risk of deeply shocking you , I have to say that in relation to small claims , we have to get rid of the lawyers . ’ |
| 29 | I have to say that in no way will this option be better than the colour changer , because for Norwegian jacquard , you will still have to make a semi-automatic colour change with the jacquard claw every two rows and this is slower . |
| 30 | I must n't become a bore on the subject , but I have to say that in physical terms Tod and I are now feeling absolutely terrific . |