Example sentences of "that i [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And everywhere else now that I come to mention it . ’ |
| 3 | I say I am bored , and that I hope to see him that evening . |
| 4 | This is to tell you that I hope to send you about 10 questionnaires on ELT dictionaries ( intermediate rather than advanced ) this week , for you and whoever else ( teachers or students — mixture if possible ) might be willing to fill them in . |
| 5 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
| 6 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
| 7 | I knew then that my last hours had come but was in such agony that I began to wish they would come sooner . |
| 8 | ‘ T is true that I came to warn you , but also to beg you to take me with you . ’ |
| 9 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
| 10 | Lord Wittisham believes that I wish to marry him . |
| 11 | It was with great relish that I prepared to burn it down — while Charles and Dimity were conveniently away for a few days . |
| 12 | ‘ You will have guessed the first , ’ he resumed , masticating the thick coils of smoke , ‘ namely that I wished to inculcate you a little further in the understanding of my true nature , a little further but not too far — keep 'em guessing is my motto . |
| 13 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 14 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 15 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 17 | " I 'm sorry , Ms. Easterbrook , that I had to ask you to come up before we were able to remove Dr. Lorrimer 's body . |
| 18 | When we met again at the funeral , I knew that I had to see you again soon . |
| 19 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 20 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 21 | I am sorry that I had to deceive you just now ; I am from the Military Police Special Investigation Branch . ’ |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I knew then that I had to box it up . |
| 23 | At the end of each day my pillow was so soaked in saliva that I had to wring it out on the floor . ’ |
| 24 | It was a moment when a stray thread of sledge-hammer sanity isolated itself and hit me , and I , in that scarce moment , knew that I had to protect you — from me ! ’ |
| 25 | All I knew , in the heat of that moment , was that I had to protect you from me , had to take heed of that barely grasped truth that I could n't perhaps take your virginity and then just walk away . ’ |
| 26 | I told myself that I could not — that I had to make her admit what we both knew — that she was in love with me , and always had been . |
| 27 | At last the rain held off and although the wind was a little strong I knew that I had to fly her . |
| 28 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 29 | I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance . |
| 30 | Of course , my real reason was that I hoped to get him back , but it has n't worked . ’ |