Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's just that I mean this is the only thing about Halloween that I do n't like is the import from America of this trick or treat nonsense . |
2 | In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus . |
3 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
4 | This is the second principle for the social modelling of change that I discussed in chapter 1 . |
5 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
6 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
7 | For instance , one aspect of technique that I find particularly difficult is very rapid alternate picking ( across strings ) . |
8 | I 'll cooperate as far as I can , on the understanding of course that I remain in control — full control — of anything to do with my project . |
9 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
10 | Except of course … ’ she broke off to toss back the rest of the whisky and set the tumbler down on Hugo 's desk , ‘ except of course that I do n't suppose I shall be here long enough to make the adjustment . ’ |
11 | But the problem being now of course that I think in line with most London boroughs there is club which tennis club which has tennis courts on Local Authority land . |
12 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
13 | It will depend on how many choose to enter the type of contract that I have described . |
14 | But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data . |
15 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
16 | Now that I am here I am aware of straining towards an intensity of response that I do not feel . |
17 | This was the kind of prosaic patterning of self-absorption that I knew would entrance Mr Broadhurst . |
18 | A woman 's number was at the bottom of the Time Out piece and it was with some feelings of fear that I decided to ring it , not knowing who or what I would find . |
19 | Stories which Eliot knew then such as ‘ They ’ and ‘ The End of the Passage ’ , ‘ one of the most striking tales of fear that I have ever read ’ , would haunt his poetry . |
20 | I found a lot of guilt and a lot of fear that I do n't agree with . ’ |
21 | He has not got the freedom of action that I have . |
22 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
23 | And it was in this frame of mind that I undertook the journey to visit a witchdoctor who reputedly had the ability to establish contact between a person and their ancestors . |
24 | I think to be a good teaching aid something has to say ‘ Well I think this because ’ and , as it were , retrace the chain of reasoning that I 've just the sort of chain that I 've given you . |
25 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
26 | He describes , as I did , the lack of access between the interiors of modules , but accepts the view of consciousness that I associated with Minsky 's views on heterarchy : that , roughly speaking , sometimes one module would be conscious and sometimes another , depending on circumstances : |
27 | I forgot the departmental meeting and I bawled out the wrong kid yesterday , there 's a stack of mail that I have n't even opened in my pigeon-hole , my marking is getting pretty cursory , and I have decided regretfully that I do n't have the energy to organize the third-year science field trip this year , nor the time to prepare properly for my A-level group . |
28 | So she dashed off to her room and came back with a piece of underwear that I had certainly never seen before . |
29 | Before doing so I should say by way of parenthesis that I have totally bypassed the colleagues who are currently members of the Government , several of whom suggested privately that they would resign if the Maastricht bill or anything like it is brought back on to the floor of the House of Commons . |
30 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |