Example sentences of "i [vb base] that i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July .
2 but , I 've , until that happens I regret that I canot support Chris 's resolution .
3 I regret that I do not know at what level the exemption was first introduced .
4 I regret that I disagree with my hon. Friend , but I assure her that the levels have returned to those of 1987 .
5 But bitterly I regret that I needed another man 's hands to help me , and he in ignorance . ’
6 I regret that I have to conclude that the omens for retaining national control of vital areas do not look good .
7 I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police .
8 However , I and others find it difficult to accept that , but I repeat that I have no hard evidence to substantiate my claim .
9 I repeat that I have sympathy with the staff of the Housing Executive and the Department of Health 's occupational therapy department , but there are great problems that we must face .
10 I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1
11 Oh yeah , but then you 've also got to watch I mean that I 'd , sometimes I 'd muck things up when I 've given too much choice I think
12 exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go .
13 I mean that I attended the lectures given at Cambridge by Dirac .
14 Underneath the screen up in the pie in the sky I mean that I mean I 've known that when you 've only got about that much where you should have that .
15 I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes .
16 The people who were lived behind Ann there 's a yo young couple in there I think he beat her up , I mean that I wanted to go round me , because I know what it felt like and I wished somebody had come and help me .
17 By that I mean that I see the New English Art Club as standing for a cultured , civilised , very English approach to art — a kind of visual stability .
18 Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders .
19 ‘ I suppose I mean that I do n't think I ought to have them . ’
20 I suppose I mean that I do n't think my husband would be a nature poet if he did n't live now , here , in England .
21 " I mean that I do n't hate him any more .
22 I stress that I understand that the regulations will be general and that highway authorities will be given discretion to interpret them in the most appropriate way .
23 ‘ You will forgive me if I insist that I understand Mrs Frere better than you do yourself .
24 I hate that I cause her so much pain .
25 I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode .
26 I realise that I come into the picture as a relative , and I do feel natural interest and concern for my great-uncle .
27 For the first time , it occurs to me that my body has needs for food , needs of its own that I ca n't try to overrule with dieting and ferocious exercise and fasting ; and in a bigger way , I realise that I have needs of all kinds that I had tried to ignore : a need for food , a need to be loved , a need to feel accepted , a need for independence , a need to grow up , and a need for security .
28 I 've always got on well with adults , but it 's only now that I 'm starting to get on with my own generation , and I realise that I have to do that if I 'm to become a whole person .
29 I realise that I have little I need to hide .
30 But as I say that I recommend them because they were er excellent .
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