Example sentences of "[that] i [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And ask General Dornberg to tell the Prince 's Chief of Staff that I 'm watching the Charleroi road , ’ Sharpe added . |
| 2 | I 'm not even sure that I 'm doing the right course . |
| 3 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 4 | I 'm not ashamed to admit that I was encountering the vast majority of the fish on show for the first time . |
| 5 | At the north-western tip of the island I picked malotira , on the long empty golden beach of Phalasarna , thinking from its exotic perfume that I was gathering the famous dittany of Crete which grows nowhere else but on this island . |
| 6 | A harassed young intern assisted by a cool , pretty nurse ( called Ruth , from Stanmore ) told me that I was bucking the statistical trend by having three fingers smashed between the knuckle and the phalangeal joint . |
| 7 | ‘ As a cover , I had told everybody that I was remixing the original Abba songs . |
| 8 | When they left , however , and I made the decision to stay , I knew it might be hard for me but I knew also that I was doing the right thing . |
| 9 | If God would provide accommodation for my family while I was away , preferably with friends , and convince my parents that I was doing the right thing , then I would know that the trip was on . |
| 10 | I wanted to be sure that I was doing the right thing and would n't regret it . |
| 11 | Not at all sure that I was doing the right thing , I fumbled towards the nearest dish for a finger-load of food , and turned to Sadria . |
| 12 | ‘ I told him that I did n't give a rat 's arse , and that I was doing the best I could . ’ |
| 13 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |