Example sentences of "i [vb base] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now as a matter of interest ladies , I sell that at twen twenty nine pounds , seventy nine ninety nine . |
| 2 | I regret that for geographical and personal reasons I am not eligible for re-election and shall be leaving the committee altogether . |
| 3 | I regret that during my research for this debate I found that , in the field of computers , one of the least well-equipped police forces is that in my own area , Greater Manchester . |
| 4 | Full compliance with environmental legislation remains a key , yet elusive , target and I regret that in 1992 ICI was prosecuted or fined on a number of occasions for accidental environmental infringements . |
| 5 | I repeat that in the past 10 years there has been a devolution of power down into the regions right across Europe , not only inside the EC . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean that without evidence , they ca n't bring a charge . ’ |
| 7 | have to give guarantees that the tape would not be abused , but I mean that in , in , in actuality you know , if it was you doing the training |
| 8 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 9 | But I can see you know I mean that in itself is a blockage to many people is n't it . |
| 10 | Bearded , chubby and deceptively jovial , he fields problems in Ronald Reagan-like fashion ( and I mean that in a Dame Edna-like caring way ) . |
| 11 | In fact , Miriam went from the studios to the airport and back to America where she now ‘ largely ’ , and I mean that in yet another caring way , works . |
| 12 | ‘ All the really intelligent people I 've met , and I mean that in a clinical sense , have a sort of specialised intelligence . |
| 13 | And , one of the days she 'll learn the game , I mean that in the nicest sense , the , th th , the game , and when she learns the game she 'll stop coming out with ideas then . |
| 14 | And I liken that to the power from above which can execute our sinful selves . |
| 15 | I fear that on health , as on other issues , that is all too true . |
| 16 | I fear that from becoming perhaps a local nuisance he will become a pest . |
| 17 | I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis . |
| 18 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 19 | I trust that at some stage I will have the opportunity to tax him on the curious proposal that legislation which increases the wage bill of companies does not necessarily increase the costs of those companies and therefore can be regarded as having nil effect on their competitiveness . |
| 20 | I trust that with spring just round the corner you will feel better . |
| 21 | ‘ Miss Kenton , if you for one moment believe I have time on my hands , that displays more clearly than ever your great inexperience , I trust that in years to come , you will gain a clearer picture of what occurs in a house like this . ’ |
| 22 | I trust that in the light of this letter you will now be able to lend your support to the proposals being put to the Finance Committee on 9 December 1992 . |
| 23 | I realise that to a man like you this situation is probably an open invitation to a spot of casual sex , even if generally you do n't fancy redheads , as you so gallantly pointed out when we first met … ’ |
| 24 | As we all dance forward towards the next episode , I realise that for one brief hour we have escaped from the drab monotony of the Oxford English Culture . |
| 25 | These are major changes , and I realise that for many people a further round of reorganisation will not be welcome . |
| 26 | I shall be brief because I realise that at least two other hon. Members wish to take part in the debate . |
| 27 | In fact , as I have developed this chapter , I realise that within the definition I am using they are exactly the same thing . |
| 28 | I realise that before making any commitment you 'll want to take advice , but perhaps you could let me have your initial response ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I realise that in many ways I have been extraordinarily fortunate , and I never stop counting my blessings . |
| 30 | I expect that for an ornithologist death ceases to be terrible once sight and hearing begin to go . |