Example sentences of "that i [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 2 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 3 | ‘ I have to admit that I prefer to be in charge of any given situation . |
| 4 | ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue . |
| 5 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 6 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 7 | Here is a signature that I know to be genuine , on a document guaranteeing his overdraft of over twenty years ago , signed in my presence . |
| 8 | This does not mean that I like to be led by the nose , but only that I would appreciate a little extra guidance ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know that I wish to be tossed anywhere as it happens . |
| 10 | That I take to be the situation here . |
| 11 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 12 | Going to another church ( of the Presbyterian Church of England ) my love of God came to be the central factor in my life , and aged almost sixteen I told my headmistress with quiet confidence that I wished to be ordained . |
| 13 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 14 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 15 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 16 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 17 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 18 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 19 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 21 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 22 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 23 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 24 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 25 | It was the person , the personality that I grew to be really good friends with , that I have now grown to love . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It was a character that I felt to be a very basic part of me and when I read it I had that immediate connection with him . |
| 27 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 28 | It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful . |
| 29 | What always amazes me when we play scrabble I mean , things that I consider to be slang you know , on the odd time I thought well I 'll try that |
| 30 | The fact that I appeared to be driving the only topless car on the east coast did n't make it any easier . |