Example sentences of "i [verb] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You want me to confirm that something you feel is all right is truly all right , ’ said the counsellor . |
| 2 | Let me emphasize that there is nothing wrong in comparing local authority figures for numbers of children placed ‘ home on trial ’ . |
| 3 | You walk in here with a bagful of goodies and that preposterously expensive bottle of wine , looking like shit would n't stick to your shoe , and want me to pretend that we 're married , we 're happy , and that it 's always happened like this . |
| 4 | How could you go on letting me think that they were true ? ’ |
| 5 | Like when someone says that the records you love are just plastic junk and they are the sort of people who read and rake in all that shit in the daily papers , then it makes me think that my daily intake of media is far superior to theirs . |
| 6 | And if that is so , then I revert to the considerations already stated which as a matter of construction make me think that it did so legislate . |
| 7 | It deliberately switched off its mind to me , to make me think that it had died . ’ |
| 8 | Letting me think that you slept with so many men you did n't have the first idea who the father was ! ’ |
| 9 | Running my eyes down the contents list of volume three , however , makes me think that I am about to encounter uncharted waters , featuring as it does sequencing , the MIDI studio and something called SMPTE … |
| 10 | It forced me to realize that I was normal and that I was human , and that was a big kind of realization for me . |
| 11 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 12 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 13 | Somebody had been her , fetching me to see that I was playing truant , landed in school . |
| 14 | ‘ Actually she — she sent me to see that you are all right because — after all — you 're her late husband 's son and — and … ’ |
| 15 | Before the editors of trade magazines start sticking sub-editors ' spikes in my effigy let me explain that their publications perform a valuable function and are extremely interesting to their readers . |
| 16 | Lord Ross added : ‘ This appears to me to emphasise that there is both importance and difficulty in this action which would make it appropriate for the action to be heard in the Court of Session as the supreme court rather than in the sheriff court . |
| 17 | So , if we are conscious in the sense of this analogy of levels , then it is of the uppermost level that we are conscious , but that does not require me to claim that we are always conscious of that level . |
| 18 | Part of me thinks that he is setting a useful precedent . |
| 19 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 20 | ‘ If you intend me to infer that she was pregnant , then for the life of me I can see no reason why you do n't actually say so . |
| 21 | It takes me places that I thought I 'd never see |
| 22 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 23 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 24 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 25 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 26 | But anyway , she made me promise that my first day in New York , I 'd go to Statue of Liberty . |
| 27 | If some of you have had bad experiences with other ‘ Amway people ’ let me promise that I am not like that ! |
| 28 | She made me promise that I would n't tell you who I was until you said you loved me . |
| 29 | ‘ Enough for me to know that she was very unhappy just before your father died . |
| 30 | I have not done anything to earn it , but God has given me the Spirit and accepted me into his family ; and he means me to know that I belong . ’ |