Example sentences of "i [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It forced me to realize that I was normal and that I was human , and that was a big kind of realization for me . |
| 4 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 5 | Somebody had been her , fetching me to see that I was playing truant , landed in school . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually she — she sent me to see that you are all right because — after all — you 're her late husband 's son and — and … ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 13 | ‘ Enough for me to know that she was very unhappy just before your father died . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't know why , but it seemed important to me to establish that we have n't any fuse-boxes ( and indeed we have n't ) , but she would n't allow this and was quite stern with me about it as if I were deliberately lying to her . |
| 16 | It is of no surprise to you and I to know that we are in a erm an economic crisis , and , but I think that we might be accused of being in an area that does n't take the fair share of the cuts . |
| 17 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 18 | ‘ Am I to understand that you 've heard from Doreen — and that she 'll be here at the weekend ? ’ |
| 19 | So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ ' |
| 20 | ‘ This is a promise that God gave to Abraham , ’ North said Reagan had told him , in the slightly hectoring tone he always had in the North dreams ; ‘ Who am I to say that we should not do this ? ’ |
| 21 | Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ? |
| 22 | I 'm not involved with that man in any personal way , and it 's an insult to me to imagine that I am . |
| 23 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 24 | Of course , it is not for me to suggest that I am worthy of ever being placed alongside the likes of the ‘ great ’ butlers of our generation , such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane — though it should be said there are those who , perhaps out of misguided generosity , tend to do just this . |
| 25 | And I take the view that the Unity Development Plans for Leeds and Bradford do tend to me to suggest that there is the ability to meet an increasing amount of need in within their own areas and that that should be reflected in a continually reducing er export if I can call it that , to North Yorkshire , and this morning we heard from Cleveland that Cleveland are making gallant efforts to er to er retain their economic er viability by retaining their population . |
| 26 | I do not believe that point has been reached ; but it would be disingenuous for me to deny that it could exist . |
| 27 | The company is writing to you directly about all this and have asked me to stress that they 're always happy to deal with any queries about their service . |
| 28 | Experience , therefore , obliges me to conclude that there must be an intermediate link ; which must either be the same in others as in myself , or a different one ; … by supposing the link to be of the same nature … |
| 29 | As I told you I think I have made observations which lead me to conclude that there are not only high but fertile lands on the verge of our intertropical Regions , and arguing from the Character of the Ranges here I should not be surprised to find in the more distant parts of the Continent , a Country vying with America in richness of Natural products , and I have very little doubts but that the discoveries to be made would amply repay the government any outlay it might make . |
| 30 | Yes , it was silly of me to forget that you had been to Scotland often — one of those mental slips which I am increasingly prone to . |