Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have stressed that I am taking a particular linguistic phenomenon , deixis , and examining its occurrences and behaviour in a specific genre . |
| 2 | ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character . |
| 3 | Now it might be objected that I am talking here about language knowledge and not communicative behaviour , about how grammar might be learned and not about the development of a language using ability . |
| 4 | My children will have already guessed that I am referring to a brandade . |
| 5 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I 'd explained that I 'm doing it because I want to . ’ |
| 7 | Also , during my last year at Oxford , I had noticed that I was getting rather clumsy in my movements . |
| 8 | On the subject of personal hygiene and ‘ standards ’ in general , I had noticed that I was beginning to swear rather too much in my own thoughts . |
| 9 | He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal . |
| 10 | You see I 've decided that I 'm going to leave Clinique the the expensive make-up er for some , you know until I get myself re-established financially . |
| 11 | It was the kind of illogical fear of the supernatural that in others made me sneer ; but all along I had felt that I was invited not out of hospitality , but for some other reason . |
| 12 | I 've always felt that I was raised in the land of melody but I certainly was n't raised in the land of rhythm so I 'm always attracted to good dance music . |
| 13 | Holmes had told Stapleton that he would return to London , but he had not said that I was going too . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't yet said that I 'm staying here , ’ she said stubbornly . |
| 15 | I quote from my account of it in a letter to Elizabeth , ten years later : it will be seen that I am answering her questions . |
| 16 | If the driver had seen that I was hurt , he would have stopped , and I was not up to explaining why I could not accept a lift . |
| 17 | He was almost relieved — for one ghastly moment , he 'd thought that I was going to tell him I loved him . |
| 18 | One night , a Wednesday , I was told that I was leaving Holloway the next day to go up to Risley remand centre because my judge was at Sheffield . |
| 19 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 20 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 21 | It should be noted that I am concentrating here on ‘ further treatment ’ and therefore assume a pre-existing relationship between the doctor and the patient . |
| 22 | I had n't known that I was going to be presented with such a large sum . |
| 23 | On the way to our initial meeting I had to change trains , and soon found that I was travelling in the wrong direction . |
| 24 | Interestingly enough , after I 'd announced that I was going to do this , my very first clients were all the star names who had asked about the sound I got when I was playing ! |
| 25 | I 'm just trying to move passed that I 'm making a couple of holes bigger . |
| 26 | Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies . |
| 27 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 28 | I am determined that I 'm going to spend far more time with my child , ’ says Richard . |
| 29 | I 'd say , " What 's going to happen there ? " because I was determined that I was going to have the baby on my own . |
| 30 | And she was determined that I was going to fall in love with the girl . |