Example sentences of "[vb base] [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise that I have little I need to hide . |
| 2 | wanting , you know say that I sent away for erm |
| 3 | I am sure that I am not alone when I say that I learned more through the Iii-service courses organised by Basil Rocke than through my entire period of earlier , formal training . |
| 4 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 5 | But I would wake up , startled and guilty , horrorstruck that I had somehow managed to allow myself to get out of control . |
| 6 | Fear that I have only dreamed of moving forward , that when I go in and face it I will see that it is a mistake , not possible , uninteresting . |
| 7 | ‘ If you mean that I worked hard to make my own money , then yes , I did . |
| 8 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
| 9 | With hindsight , however , I consider that I spend far too long thinking of a circuit or turn . |
| 10 | I do not wish in any way to criticise you , and I appreciate that I applied today to ask such a question — |
| 11 | And I recall that I laughed aloud at that stage and I believe ( the agent ) joined me in that . |
| 12 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |
| 13 | I know that I went there when the change I have spoken of must have been already complete . |
| 14 | Moreover , you know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I can not bear [ the flute ] . |
| 15 | I also know that I sit here , not because of any evidence against me but because of the legal establishment 's concerns for its own pretensions to infallibility . |
| 16 | Erm and I think it 's exactly the same with some of the words that you know that I quoted earlier . |
| 17 | If you know that I have just bought an angora woollie at half price in a sale , it is unlikely that it came from Boots the chemist . |
| 18 | I know that I have only a few hours left to live , but I can feel my loved ones near me , and I welcome death . |
| 19 | Gentlemen , not only had our trade been inundated with boys , but fortunately or unfortunately , we have had another element introduced , and you know that I have never been a person who ignored the company of the opposite sex . |
| 20 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 21 | I have often wondered where they do come from but confess that I have absolutely no idea . |
| 22 | Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 24 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 25 | ‘ You really believe that I came here to cause trouble , do n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 27 | He said in a letter to shareholders : ‘ I believe that I know better than anyone what makes Amstrad operate and what needs to be done in order to secure its future . |
| 28 | ‘ I believe that I have never worked with kitsch . |
| 29 | She said that with energy and emphasis and I was astonished ( ‘ when war casts its shadow I find that I recoil etc ’ ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said . |