Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I have to say , that the the year wo I that I 'm reporting on now , nineteen ninety , ninety-one was actually better than we had originally planned and expected , and in fact , that we did eliminate the deficit in that year .
2 But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then
3 Erm and anybody who tells me that they 're gon na get one and arrives by train at the course whatever their excuse I would be suspicious .
4 It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it .
5 Now it seems to me that they are challenging on that basis that they can it can be it can be detailed at the local level that individual boundaries can be challenged .
6 One student told me that they were watching and waiting .
7 When one morning she told me that they were going away , I ca n't say that it was a surprise .
8 Having told me that everyone was advising him to record it , I told him to go ahead and do it , but not with me .
9 It seems to me that everything is balanced on a knife-edge . ’
10 All the same , it 's by no means clear to me that we 're making any progress …
11 [ I ] t seems to me that we are moving more and more in the direction of an elective dictatorship , not the less objectionable in principle because it is inefficient in practice , and not the less tyrannical in its nature because the opposed parties , becoming more and more polarized in their attitudes , seek with some prospects of success to seize the new levers of power and use them alternately to reverse the direction taken by their immediate predecessors .
12 Nonetheless , as an long-established reader of the medical journals , it does strike me that we are hearing much more about increasingly curious self-administrations .
13 ‘ It seems to me that we are missing the key factor .
14 It seems to me that we are inclining to be very inconsistent in regard to two matters which have recently been very much before us .
15 It seems to me that we are having to fight all over again to keep many things that we have already fought for and gained in the past .
16 ‘ It gradually dawned on me that we were becoming a sort of ‘ Punk cabaret ’ act .
17 The form it 's taking is not extremely reactionary , I would n't want to say that , but it does seem to me that it 's shifting away from progressive forms of narrative resolution that were available a few years ago .
18 A niece of mine living in tells me that it 's picking up slightly , the property market .
19 I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children .
20 A home-made notice informed me that it was kept by M. McDougall , who also did bed and breakfasts .
21 ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’
22 It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne .
23 Did n't you tell me that it was stolen ?
24 I am being set up in the ward and it occurs to me that I am feeling fine .
25 It seemed to me that I was watching a play .
26 James and I continued to go out and have lovely times together , but after a couple of years it slowly began to dawn on me that I was expanding .
27 A harassed young intern assisted by a cool , pretty nurse ( called Ruth , from Stanmore ) told me that I was bucking the statistical trend by having three fingers smashed between the knuckle and the phalangeal joint .
28 If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar .
29 It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant .
30 Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every .
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