Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] am [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be assured however that if I can in any manner contribute to the success of your efforts , either by the proposal of questions for discussion , or subjects for Papers or giving my opinions on any part of the Veterinary Art which you may think proper to investigate I shall at all times feel myself honored by the request , & I am persuaded that Mr Sewell will be most happy to ( ? add ) his exertions in any way congenial to your wishes . |
| 2 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 3 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 4 | This means that there will be no restriction on the number of places available and I am hoping that as many parents as possible will come and so help to make a real occasion of it . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the inflow of complaints continues to grow and I am disturbed that we have not yet been able to make much of an inroad into the backlog of work . |
| 6 | We take great pride in the rich heritage and tradition of our the brands , and I am determined that we will preserve and develop their strength with consumers all around the world . |
| 7 | I made inquiries about the press conference and I am assured that it had nothing to do with this matter . |
| 8 | The first decision — and I am assuming that you are choosing the frame before the pressed flower design has been created — is to decide what shape of picture you want . |
| 9 | ‘ The man is saying that you keep the noise down , and I am saying that you do what the man says . ’ |
| 10 | At the end of the public road is a notice prohibiting cars from going further , and I am told that the new owners of the Killilan estate are enforcing this ban fairly strictly but not in all cases . |
| 11 | And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do . |
| 12 | It appears that the next stage is to look for suitable sites and I am told that you will be able to provide us with a large scale map of the area for this purpose . |
| 13 | There was always political sparring around the bar when these two people were present and I am told that not many rounds were bought , but many rounds were fought . |
| 14 | And I am told that another Metro got similar treatment in Newtownards on that Friday evening . |
| 15 | But I am troubled that he mentions the deaths of British servicemen without any references to the closing of the gates of Mandatory Palestine to the desperate refugees who tried to leave Nazi Germany but found the rest of Europe and the Jewish homeland closed to them . |
| 16 | I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to wake up at the dead of night ( 5 a.m. ) to go and paddle a canoe , but I am assured that the challenge is worth it . |
| 17 | True , this is on one of those detested and expensive 0898 numbers but I am assures that Directus keep the message as succinct as possible and that is rare for a call to last more than a minute . |
| 18 | I am not arguing that there are no uses for a conceptual demarcation of classes quite distinct from the demarcations present within popular ideology — on the contrary , I have used such a demarcation in previous chapters — but I am arguing that the latter demarcations have a real importance and should not be dismissed as merely ‘ subjective ’ . |
| 19 | But I am resolved that if it must be so I will obtain permission from the Brownings to have my husband journey to England at the end of the holiday and bring his son back with him . |
| 20 | Actually the instrument is a lovely one with a characteristically lucid tone , but I am bothered that anyone should think this was the sort of instrument Liszt had in mind ( or played ) at the time of writing works such as the Rigoletto Paraphrase and First Mephisto Waltz , both of which are delivered with considerable panache by Orolowetsky . |
| 21 | But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two . |
| 22 | We can pick over whether the peak age is 15 or 18 , but I am saying that crime has doubled . |
| 23 | Old friends from many years ago they probably would n't call me a friend but I am saying that er very er |
| 24 | I did not hear them say this , but I am told that they do , and if you think what that would mean , I guess , whether you agree about the deer or not , that this is not a sensible suggestion . |