Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is my parish , Stair , ’ said Dr Neil , ‘ and , seeing that I live here , such occasions as this deserve my support . |
| 2 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 3 | Who should I have always been guilty of believing that I had never done enough ? |
| 4 | I stand with the phone in my hand , remembering that I have still had no lunch . |
| 5 | " How can you say that , how can you say that , " said Clelia , " by saying that you are condemning me , you 're criticizing me , you 're implying that I talk too much , God knows I do , but surely you could do better ? |
| 6 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 7 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 8 | David did n't like it because he was on there and so we went through saying that I have only the most important |
| 9 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 10 | I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed , ‘ meaning that I did before . |
| 12 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |