Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other event that I remember well was when my Uncle Ned could have made himself a bit of money when a bird was shot down in mistake for a grouse . |
| 2 | ‘ Since I married my husband I 've only met two men , that 's in seven years , that I 've even been tempted with , ’ said the voice above her . |
| 3 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 5 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't believe it 's such a coincidence , that I 've actually been staying in the house of the person I came to look for ! |
| 7 | He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think that I 've ever been questioned about them . |
| 9 | Warnock , under fire after a 6-0 blasting by Millwall , said : ‘ Millwall was a body blow but I 've told my players that I 've always been a fighter . |
| 10 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 11 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 12 | There , in the fact that , that same evening , when I can promise you that I 've always been a most truthful man , I , to my own amazement , discovered that I was mouthing lies . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 14 | ‘ I think so — as far as I can , bearing in mind that I 'm Jewish and that I 've never been remotely religious . |
| 15 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 16 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's just that I 've never been deported before . ’ |
| 18 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 19 | I 've realized that I 've never been out of love . |
| 20 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 21 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 22 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 23 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 24 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 25 | Everything that I write here is true — I can not lie to you , or to God . |
| 26 | I took to listening to Wagner , but reports in magazine articles that I drank heavily are an exaggeration . |
| 27 | But the energy was still there , we know full well , that there 's other MPs there , I think it 's thirty seven we 've got and we , the only one that I know well is Gerald Kaufman . |
| 28 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 29 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 30 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |