Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [that] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense of dispossession sustained an underworld of thugs , drug pushers , and thieves ( I wanted to write about crime in Hawaii , but the godfather of the North Shore let me know that he 'd rather I did n't ) . |
| 2 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 3 | ‘ So you see , I am happy , yet I regret that I can no longer be of any assistance to you , ’ Ybreska murmured , ‘ deferentially . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean that you could probably spend the rest of your life doing nothing more taxing than the sunbathing you were so clearly enjoying today . ’ |
| 5 | But nor do I think that you should somehow try to cosset the position of the leader of the party . |
| 6 | Alec and I realized that we would only endanger our lives by trying to extract Father from where he lay and make a night climb with him . |
| 7 | I realized that I might actually have a sin . |
| 8 | When the gentleman in your office , however , addressed me not as Mrs Maitland , but by my maiden name , which is the one I write under , I realized that it must indeed be me who was being phoned , whereupon it suddenly seemed ( perhaps only by association of ideas ) imperative that I had the means of writing to hand . |
| 9 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 10 | ‘ I realised that I 'll always need you , ’ she whispered . |
| 11 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 12 | In this address I also criticised the fashion of ‘ deconstruction ’ , and I argued that we can effectively understand the cultures of alien peoples and remote epochs , although , naturally , we can also misunderstand them . |
| 13 | I fear that they will eventually prove to have come from the Welsh Office , via the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 14 | Should there be an upheaval in the Ingard group now , I fear that we may never know . " |
| 15 | He will be surprised — I fear that he may even be disappointed — by the figures that we shall announce next week , which specify the output that we expect from housing associations in 1992-93 . |
| 16 | I hoped that we could do that today , but I trust that we shall certainly have an opportunity tomorrow . |
| 17 | ‘ I actually won quite easily when I expected that I 'd still have a lot to learn , ’ he explains . |
| 18 | I realise that you can never really win against the water ; it will always triumph in the end , seeping and soaking and building up and undermining and overflowing . |
| 19 | Turning from downwind to base at around 500 feet I found that you could almost pull the throttle completely back and make a glide approach . |
| 20 | I found that I could no longer hear the boat 's engine . |
| 21 | I found that I could quickly discard the handbook in favour of striking out on my own and was quite satisfied with the results . |
| 22 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 23 | If I stopped I found that she 'd immediately close them again . |
| 24 | ‘ I think I am talking for us all when I say that we will gladly work for nothing , just until matters improve , we have all been so happy here at Summer Lodge and each and every one of us would like to stay with you wherever you go . ’ |
| 25 | Believe me when I say that I would never hurt you . |
| 26 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 27 | I suggest that it would now be best for everyone to concentrate on its merits and on its implementation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |
| 30 | I imagine that you would also be aware that the only reason the Pentagon produces such figures is to extract from a long suffering American tax-payer billions upon billions of extra dollars in order to pursue its own lunatic military fantasies . |