Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm asking you to accept that I 've got reasons , and not to ask me what they are . |
| 2 | If it 's too painful for her to accept that I want to look for Elaine , then I sha n't . ’ |
| 3 | Sooner or later I would have to accept that I needed to look elsewhere . |
| 4 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 5 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 6 | But it helps a lot to know that I 've balanced the books . ’ |
| 7 | You might like to know that I 've approached no other company . |
| 8 | Among the many ‘ thank-you ’ letters I wrote , I sent one to Alan Shell of the Humanist Association , who replied , ‘ We are very glad our letter was of help to you and you will be interested to know that I propose to send copies of your letter , with your name deleted , to our funeral officiants in the hope that they will take courage from it and help any others who might be in similar difficulties . ’ |
| 9 | He does , he said I just want you all out there to know that I do love Patsy . |
| 10 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 11 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 12 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 13 | When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple . |
| 14 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 15 | and tail , to confirm that I have missed |
| 16 | I have replied to all , and would like to report that I have negotiated a suitable figure with Christina Littler and Bob Haddon of Birmingham who will take possession before the end of May . |
| 17 | But now suppose that you know I am behind the tree , you are expecting me to leap out , and I know you know all that : I can still ( maybe ) frighten you by leaping out , just by getting you to realize that I intend to frighten you . |
| 18 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 19 | ‘ Then you are being excessively flattering , to suggest that I have put it ‘ all ’ together . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But it probably will surprise you to hear that I managed to resist the temptation to indulge my talent for marriage-wrecking and confined myself to one already divorced man and one bachelor . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to marry Syl , ’ I said , surprised to hear that I had spoken aloud . |
| 22 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 23 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 24 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 25 | I would like to stress that I wish to hear from all who may be enthusiastic , not just pilots ; I have no wish to create a posing pilots ' paradise . |
| 26 | Er in order to do that I 've got to give you various reassurances . |
| 27 | ‘ Tomorrow I wo n't be able to believe that I 've seen and touched you , Heathcliff ! ’ she cried , catching hold of his hands . |
| 28 | You 're asking me to believe that I 've fallen in love with a nothing . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 30 | Antonietta , my new friend , finds it difficult to understand that I enjoy living alone as I do , in a strange city . |