Example sentences of "[noun] [that] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense . |
| 2 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 3 | Almost all the characteristics that I enumerate apply to other nations in one way or another . |
| 4 | I 'll be all sweet penitence and grief that I 've dared set my will against his . |
| 5 | A couple of funny looks later and I realised I also had to head off the perception that I wanted to hire a sex cave for outré rumpy pumpy with a slew of bimbo victims . |
| 6 | It 's about lifestyles that I 've lived and lifestyles that I respect and that I can speak for because I 've been there . |
| 7 | The half-dozen letters from Summerchild that I have found scattered through the porridge oats box seem to be replies to letters from Serafin , but not one of Serafin 's letters has yet come to light . |
| 8 | Congress it has been my sad misfortune to encounter some of the most hostile employers over the past year that would make the grey hairs that I 've got fall out . |
| 9 | The guidance that I have referred to is , as it says , guidance to the court and to practitioners in every discipline , but it is authoritative guidance and valuable guidance which family proceedings courts should make clear that they have had regard to when they are arriving at or announcing their decision . |
| 10 | That 's , that 's true , eh , I mean the alloy in the other ones have to be quite crafty when you get up to twenty two carat for example and eh , very eh , eh , large chunk of gold in it , and it can indeed be very soft , but then you see that 's an eighteen carat ring that I 've had for , worn , all the time for twenty four years |
| 11 | The last component of the rainbow coalition that I want to refer to is feminism . |
| 12 | I mean I I went in there yesterday , I think it was , or this morning erm he put wet shirts into the wardrobe admittedly with the doors open but that bedroom is not a bedroom that I like to get any dampness in at all , Brenda . |
| 13 | ‘ Next day this camel drops to its knees and this guy gets on and signals that I 've to get on behind him . |
| 14 | I 'm strong in mind , too , though it 's only since the kids that I 've got more patient and confident . |
| 15 | Erm I 'm half and half I I I go along with Angela in the main that the the kids in , generally speaking the kids that I 've talked to do n't want to put their own input a lot of them do n't want to because , as Angela says , they can not find the appropriate words and some of the others just write some some stuff that I would look at |
| 16 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 17 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 18 | The difference that emerges is that whereas Labov 's statement is based on speaker-agreement within the dimension of social class ( and hence derivative from the ‘ shared value ’ hypothesis of stratificational class theory , on which see chapter 7 ) , the characterization that I have built up thus far is based on the variables of age , sex , area and network , within a single social class , and without reliance on a prior model or theory of social class . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman made a totally false comparison before he made the totally false allegation that I had misled the House . |
| 20 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 21 | This training procedure evidently generates context-specific latent inhibition , a result that I have interpreted as implying that the effects of exposure to the CS are less likely to interfere with new learning when the context is changed . |
| 22 | To illustrate the point , and to suggest some possible choices , I shall pack a fictional bag for three very different trips that I have taken recently — a six-week winter trip to Nepal , including a trek to Everest Base Camp , a week 's backpacking in North Wales and a camping and birdwatching trip to New England during the Fall . |
| 23 | That photograph that I 've got where it 's all snowy 's his house and we lived just opposite . |
| 24 | It would be interesting to hear just how much of the programme that I have outlined the Government support , those aspects of it that they do not , and why . |
| 25 | I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it . |
| 26 | It was with this old — and , to my mind , unresolved — dispute at the back of my mind that I came to write ‘ Hylas Fights Back ’ . |
| 27 | And not because you 've a foolish wee fancy in your mind that I require cosseting ? ’ |
| 28 | But before you go rushing off to the river to catch a netful of chub , bear in mind that I have said only that chub are easy to catch compared to most other species . |
| 29 | I would like your advice as to the method and position of fitting the temperature sensor unit , bearing in mind that I want to retain originality . |
| 30 | I 've already made up my mind that I want to sign for the Blues . |