Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's called erm er a special word which I 've forgotten for the moment . |
| 2 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 3 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 4 | Do you know I 've just realized that your curtains are nearly like what I 've ordered for the bedroom . |
| 5 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 6 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |