Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
2 | I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough . |
3 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
4 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
5 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |
6 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
7 | My precious work , my mainstay that I carried everywhere with me — even into hospital — was about to be taken away . |
8 | It was at this stage of my search that I started to find lead weights . |
9 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
10 | It was with this old — and , to my mind , unresolved — dispute at the back of my mind that I came to write ‘ Hylas Fights Back ’ . |
11 | ‘ I 've made up my mind that I do n't want to play league no mater what the money is ’ — WILLIE OFAHENGAUE ( Wallaby flanker ) . |
12 | I 've already made up my mind that I want to sign for the Blues . |
13 | What can I do though , Karen , it 's not my fault that I love it , surely ? |
14 | my fault that I do n't |
15 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
16 | ‘ There 's my boat that I made with my two hands , ’ he said . |
17 | The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse . |
18 | I was so excited with my discovery that I did not get much sleep that night . |
19 | My pen that I 've been working . |
20 | My least favourites are the patterned shirts in my wardrobe that I bought a couple of years ago |
21 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
22 | ‘ I know that 's what you imagine , and I guess I 've let you believe that because I had become so accustomed to my privacy that I did n't care for your intrusion into it , but you 're wrong . |
23 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
24 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
25 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
26 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
27 | Erm yes you you you 'll know from my evidence that I have certain reservations about the detailed wording of this of this particular criteria . |
28 | Er , the first thing is I put on the top of my draught that I 'd rather the pupils were n't involved at this stage I 'd rather they were involved in the over view with form tutor . |
29 | It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful . |
30 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |