Example sentences of "[vb infin] [that] i was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How did you know that I was still in the office ? ’ she asked carelessly . |
| 2 | I sat down and began switching my tail from side to side to let her know that I was constantly alert and maybe a little unpredictable . |
| 3 | so erm er I ca n't guarantee that I was totally compos mentis when I read it but er I 'm |
| 4 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 5 | My wife could n't believe that I was actually going out to see what was going on . |
| 6 | I ca n't believe that I was really that desperate , that I let myself go that completely . |
| 7 | I would have liked brothers and sisters but I do n't remember that I was ever lonely . |
| 8 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 9 | Time after time I ran away and my social worker could see that I was n't happy . |
| 10 | So what I did was I used Illustrator and did a , used a free hand tool and drew a really sloppy dollar sign which looked kind of dangly dinosaurish , only with the inside with a nice curve , so they could see that I was n't a complete |
| 11 | With hindsight I can see that I was already predisposed , given the right circumstances , to become anorexic . |
| 12 | Looking back I can see that I was somewhat raw material that could benefit from such provision . |
| 13 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 14 | But you will understand that I was very upset . |
| 15 | On leaving GLF in 1972 I did n't realize that I was now a separatist ; those of us who were did n't use the word . |
| 16 | You can guess that I was not one of them . |
| 17 | He stated : ‘ I was very frightened that if I had a disease like that they might suggest that I was n't able to continue the training and that I would n't qualify . |
| 18 | ‘ Just because I was a very talented and precocious child did n't mean that I was also a happy one , ’ says Danielle . |
| 19 | David was n't very happy about me being so blunt , but I think in a way it made him realise that I was really straightforward and that I really did care . |
| 20 | I must admit that I was less sympathetic than I should have been . |
| 21 | John became ‘ rather cool and offhand ’ now that he was master of the situation , ‘ bringing all my charms into action , but making it seem that I was very blasé about the whole thing . ’ |
| 22 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 23 | I must emphasise that I was not asked to determine the capacity to give consent , but simply to complete the paperwork . |
| 24 | And everything would have been fine , except of course nature took its course and I could no longer pretend that I was n't pregnant . |
| 25 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 26 | I enjoyed it , and you could hardly say that I was n't educated . |
| 27 | So you 'd say well we must have let let's say that I was n't being that helpful |
| 28 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 29 | Already I have the feeling that I 'm a bit too thin — that Anna , whose house I am at , will say that I was never fat in the first place : ‘ Oh , you 're all right , skinny ribs ’ ; that mixture of dismissal and envy she uses , excluding me from the problems of other girls , from real problems like her fat thighs , or her backside that could do with ‘ half an hour on a bacon slicer ’ , as she puts it . |