Example sentences of "that i [vb base] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 2 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 3 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
| 4 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 5 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
| 6 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 7 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 8 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes I feel so lonely , so sick of my own thoughts , that I let him . |
| 10 | ‘ Look , I am Simpkin 's right hand man and he believes that I tell him . |
| 11 | My poor friend Mr. Carter is so very ill that I doubt he ca n't recover . |
| 12 | So , when I tell you that Paul was a contented Christian , I hope that you do n't think that I mean he was sitting quietly , comfortably , happy with the world and his life . |
| 13 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 14 | I know that I mean he 's actually thick enough to go up there and sign on in his overalls . |
| 15 | ‘ I try to just get the feelings across that I know he probably felt . |
| 16 | If you can see a result If I talk to John Smith and tell him that I know he keeps riding on the pavement at you know , with no lights , it sounds minor , but the old age pensioner who keeps nearly getting missed , it 's very you know upsetting . |
| 17 | Anyway , I 'm not certain that I like him . |
| 18 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 19 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 20 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 21 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 22 | Can you tell him please that I wish him happiness ? ’ |
| 23 | It 's not , you understand , that I fear him discovering a private purchase of a packet of fags and a bottle of Veuve du Vernay . |
| 24 | He is also aware that I have a deep regard for Joan de Warenne — and in that I fear he is not alone ! ’ |
| 25 | Not quite able to turn this down , he insists instead that I telephone him on Saturday morning to confirm . |
| 26 | Mummy said to me , mummy said to me that I wash him . |
| 27 | I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys . |
| 28 | It is with no disrespect to her that I give him preference . |
| 29 | But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed . |
| 30 | Somebody I , ones that I give him that I thought he |