Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] me [that] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me that this was not some two-bit gambling ring . |
| 2 | Recalling what I had glimpsed of his relationships with both Henry Clerval and Elizabeth , it occurred to me that this conflict probably characterized all his friendships . |
| 3 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 4 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that all surfers aspired to the condition of divinity . |
| 6 | But it seemed to me that most of us were just acting . |
| 7 | With Amantani fresh in my mind it seemed to me that more than the cattle were tethered here . |
| 8 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 9 | And when he said that he could n't agree with me , but please , please could n't we let the matter drop since nothing we said or did could alter the course of events , I was enraged because it seemed to me that this really was his attitude , he wanted a quiet life , not to be involved . |
| 10 | Moreover she breathed out power also ; one felt it in the air as one feels a thunderstorm before it breaks , and it seemed to me that this power was not quite human , that it drew its strength from afar and dwelt a stranger to the earth . |
| 11 | It seemed to me that this would be an interesting and upbeat note on which to finish our current serious on the theme of disasters , so I asked him what he meant by human betterment . |
| 12 | Gradually , it dawned on me that this was an organisation which would allow me to take and give . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry I I okay you book the player but it it appears to me that that forwards just do n't want to stay on their feet or even try to stay on their feet . |
| 14 | It appears to me that any articles published in a program probably would n't be the ones with , well shall we say ‘ less than polite ’ , references to other clubs/players … and even if they were they could be censored so as to be acceptable to the general public . |
| 15 | It seems to me that many of the people involved in our industry have a fundamental lack of understanding of the needs and preoccupations of the modern child , and there are far too many groups , circles , committees and working parties which we seem to form in endless pursuit of the Holy Grail of better children 's bookselling . |
| 16 | On the contrary , it seems to me that such a drastic gesture would fit well with your character . |
| 17 | It seems to me that all that we would be doing would be substituting one area for another in effect in terms of where that development is attracted from . |
| 18 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 19 | You know , it 's got a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension schemes , papers are gon na flood through the door and annual reports and that sort of thing and it seems to me that all of Goods th the way that this , this pension regulator is deemed to act is that he 's expecting the auditors and the actuaries to whistle blow and |
| 20 | It seems to me that all the main political parties are prepared to lead or perhaps , in the absence of a referendum , ‘ drag ’ us further down the European road whether we like it or not . |
| 21 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |
| 22 | It seems to me that that structural advance has been made mainly because of the breakdown of the big integrated production monopolies of the BBC and ITV , with their teams , solid structure and union agreements about their size . |
| 23 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 24 | And it seems to me that that oneness , that that unity is pneumatic in character . |
| 25 | It seems to me that that would be a very anomalous and inconvenient result . |
| 26 | It seems to me that that would be wholly inappropriate — it would involve further analysis of the history relating to the local authority 's care of these children and that , I think , can be in the interests of no one , certainly not of the children . |
| 27 | It seems to me that that there 's some manoeuvrability . |
| 28 | You started off by erm talking about how er Jesus tackled the problem and er it seems to me that that erm is what is a very great example really . |
| 29 | However , when no real progess is made , the time comes for reassessment , and it seems to me that that time is now . |
| 30 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |