Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] that i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day ,
2 And I just want to repeat that I do think that some of the writing that 's come out of it has saved women 's lives .
3 Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day .
4 I want to feel that I have entrusted Hasan to a gentleman .
5 I pause to state that I accept Mr submission that no claim for loss of pension has been made out on the evidence before me .
6 Suffice to say that I do not believe that human activity can be explained from or reduced to the ecological level .
7 Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction .
8 I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’
9 I said once that I wanted to make love to you , not go to bed with you , and I seem to remember that I emphasised the point .
10 They can thank whatever devils they happen to worship that I have much gentleness in my soul and am not given to vituperation or excessive polemic .
11 Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment .
12 I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service .
13 But I like to think that I have kept them up to date .
14 ‘ I like to think that I have a lot to offer as well and I do n't want to have to wait years before I get the opportunity to prove myself .
15 So no , I do n't think I missed out on anything , I like to think that I gained . ’
16 I regret to say that I forgot to give the Vice Chairman 's apologies for non-attendance .
17 Well you , I mean to say that I 've had mine a long time and you ai n't done much mileage on it .
18 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
19 Here we might admit that my belief is true and justified but refuse to grant that I know there to be a sheep in the field .
20 Yes you have to do that I believe these days too .
21 Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship
22 You need to understand that I have , as we watch the RAF a beautiful aeroplane , er Colonel and I just exchanged a thought on it .
23 I do n't think I need to repeat that I think everyone can hear the questions er
24 I have to confess that I had not anticipated the direction that your inquiries were going to take and I feel that my immediate responses were fragmented and unhelpful .
25 When these are taken into account I have to confess that I find it difficult to understand the additional insights and explanations which the Marxist method offers .
26 ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’
27 ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette
28 So did the Southernwood which was a feathery blue-green plant — that 's another plant I 've never come across since , although I have to confess that I have n't seen many gardens .
29 I hope that figure is right er , I have to confess that I have not added it up and er the copy that I have , the five and the nine could be mistaken for other figures , but I hope that there the right figures to that must be added first the general damages a calculation which like all by other calculations need to be carefully checked , I would er calculate the interest on general damages to date would be five thousand , two hundred and seven pounds future care totals six hundred and twelve thousand , five hundred and seventeen pounds suitable accommodation , seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds , transport costs thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds , that makes a total of one million , two hundred and six thousand , three hundred and thirty eight pounds that is the amount which I would be minding to award , I understand that the parties in the light of that would wish to have further discussions about the matter
30 We stood together in the entrance hall of the theatre where the show is produced , but I have to confess that I did n't recognize him .
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