Example sentences of "[verb] be that i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’
2 What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it .
3 ‘ What matters is that I have signed a class international player who can score goals , a player who could become a giant at Old Trafford .
4 What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing .
5 ‘ What counts is that I enjoy doing my job .
6 Well mum , what it wants is that I got this tooth
7 In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him .
8 What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack .
9 What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress .
10 But the point you seem to have missed is that I do n't know the lines . ’
11 All I hope is that I do n't end up in an office again . ’
12 ‘ All that happened is that I over-reacted , ’ he said at last , after a very long pause .
13 All I can remember is that I did n't much like the food , but I ate obediently and probably out of fear of giving offence .
14 What happened was that I mean you made curtains er the rusty red was affected by light , so eventually you got a curtain where where the red spots had been there were holes .
15 ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at .
16 What happened was that I did the work and received not a word from anybody about it .
17 ‘ All I know is that I left Freda a jolly-looking woman and when I came back she was altered .
18 All I know is that I 've felt a mite sadder every time an indie distributor like Making Waves or Red Rhino have hit the dust .
19 All I know is that I want to give everything I have for England again . ’
20 Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will .
21 All I know is that I think it 's a safe distance for me to drive behind that car at any given time .
22 An example I can cite is that I asked her to research and write up ( unsupervised ) an application to the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation for the microfilming of our 100,000 items in the Archive Collection .
23 The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted .
24 But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health .
25 But the main reason for quitting was that I felt stale , burnt-out .
26 The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin .
27 What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it
28 What you 're really saying is that I 've no right to ask Madeleine to make sacrifices .
29 I mean , what I 'm saying is that I 've come across many of dem who try to speak the Jamaican language , er , the Jamaican Patois , but how they speak it is totally different , becau' they 've got the English accent , and um , dey , becau' they 've got the English accent they try to speak the Jamaican local Patois the same way and in doin' so it sounds really terrible you know it sort of sounds you know it 's really funny .
30 ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like .
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