Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I want the truth , or do I want money ? |
| 2 | And I realized the truth , Mala had to be drugged . |
| 3 | I realised the truth when I became close to a friend of a friend and gradually fell in love with her . |
| 4 | I realised the truth of all I had heard and read and decided to give my heart to Jesus and ask God to forgive me my sins on Wednesday , 13th April in the car on the way home from work . |
| 5 | I found the truth . |
| 6 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 7 | What is true of Nietzsche is surely true of Derrida , of whom there are many competing versions ; Norris presumably believes that his contains the truth , without distancing quotation marks . |
| 8 | I want the truth from him . ’ |
| 9 | He said I want the truth . |
| 10 | This is a murder enquiry and I want the truth . |
| 11 | ‘ All right , Shannon Lea , I want some answers from you now — and I want the truth . |
| 12 | ‘ Because I want the truth ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I want the truth , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Turning back to the landlord , Giles Aplin said , ‘ I already know the name of the man who gave you this watch — but I want to hear it from your lips — and I want the truth . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Now , ’ she said , ‘ I want the truth of this matter . |
| 16 | As I did not now want her to guess my real reason for keeping quiet on this other matter , I used the truth , if not all the truth . |
| 17 | ‘ But I doubt I 'll ever know for sure because I 'll never see her again and only by coming face to face with her will I know the truth . ’ |
| 18 | I told the truth . |
| 19 | ‘ I told the truth in Vienna , ’ he said to a friend , ‘ but not the whole truth . ’ |
| 20 | I told the truth . |
| 21 | I told the truth . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I speak the truth . |
| 23 | I speak the truth , yes ? |
| 24 | I think that you know I speak the truth . |
| 25 | I think I speak the truth , Sir John . ’ |
| 26 | You old soldiers who read my memoirs will realise I speak the truth . |
| 27 | He feels it necessary to emphasise the closeness of his connections with the government by the reference to having played host to an MP , and also stresses the sincerity conditions ( " I speak the truth … " and " I assure you … " ) for his speech act of threatening . |
| 28 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 29 | I know the truth — Heavenly Father sent me a message , last night , like little Samuel only not just a voice , a vision , a terrible , terrible dream that would not go away … |
| 30 | ‘ I know the truth , Roger . |