Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 2 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 3 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 4 | The long grass was so wet that I decided to admire the castle from afar . |
| 5 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 6 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 7 | I am afraid that I have to confess that we allow a substantial number of people to remain simply because we have not had the staff to pursue their claims to remain through the various hoops available to them . |
| 8 | Some of the poems in the present book , only his second , are so old that I seem to remember some of them from another world . |
| 9 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just glad the teacher is OK and I want to put all this behind me . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm thirty-six years old and I seem to own half Australia . ’ |
| 12 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |
| 13 | That is not sensible and I seek to move the Community in the appropriate direction . |
| 14 | Her nose is all cold and wet and I want to wipe it for her , but I do n't . |
| 15 | The barrel was nearly empty and I had to climb right inside to get my apple . |
| 16 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 17 | Its funny cos I decided to watch the fa youth cup final from last year on friday … coincidence or what . |
| 18 | ‘ My father was German and I wanted to go out there to rebuild my life , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm English and I want to work here . |
| 20 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 21 | ‘ The substitution was purely tactical because I wanted to get some height up front , ’ said Francis . |
| 22 | Monday afternoons I have to keep free because I like to take Mrs James — the domestic help — home and Friday afternoon Lucy has a dancing lesson . |
| 23 | So a friend was embarrassed when I wanted to examine every object his family had made : the weathered pitchforks crafted from branching joints of trees ; strong rope twisted from straw ; bundles of sesame-seed stalks used as firewood after the seeds had been eaten ; hand-woven winnowing baskets , and heavy clay pots for keeping water cool in hot summers . |
| 24 | I was 19 years old when I made To Have and To Hold , but Humphrey Bogart was never my idol . |
| 25 | Although this radio programme was broadcast nationally , I found it very interesting as I happened to know the area in question . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 27 | I am sorry that I had to deceive you just now ; I am from the Military Police Special Investigation Branch . ’ |
| 28 | If I ca n't , I 'll be really upset so I have to do everything step by step ’ |
| 29 | But it 's very strange that I started to masturbate , night and morning , after that . |
| 30 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |