Example sentences of "[be] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 4 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 5 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 6 | my pain is that I knew you |
| 7 | You can break it but the thing is that I warned her , er , you know , as long as they get through to her hold on that that 's very nicely set up if she twiddles her |
| 8 | ‘ The pure and simple fact ’ , said Harris , ‘ is that I loved it . ‘ |
| 9 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 10 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 11 | When I was arrested in August , one charge against me was that I said I wanted free elections , ’ said Mr Carnogursky , aged 45 . |
| 12 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
| 13 | All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall . |
| 14 | My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train . |
| 15 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 16 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 17 | The first thing I realised was that I liked her . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , the worst thing was that I missed it . ’ |