Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … So … it may be a very unusual and surprising decision that I have reached , but I intend here , appreciating the seriousness of the position , the ramifications that could follow , I propose to direct that these proceedings are stayed . |
| 2 | I want to emphasize that these shapes are not artists ' impressions . |
| 3 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 4 | In this chapter , I hope to show that these distinctions are important and not merely a play on words . |
| 5 | You will I hope realise that these cases are placed in the context of a diseased sexuality . |
| 6 | a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them . |
| 7 | I hope it will be in all your club bars one of our bottles , we have distributed special bottles er sailor proof bottles I hope they are er which you put money in er very simply without any impediment and I do hope that all clubs will use those bottles and , and gather lots of money . |
| 8 | I do hope that positive arrangements are made to contact me in writing and that we can continue to work together to provide safe working conditions . |
| 9 | ‘ I do feel that financial managers have done themselves a disservice by just giving the numbers — you have to stop , take the managers through them and be an integral part of the operation . ’ |
| 10 | I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way . |
| 11 | I ca n't get under trying to change the perceptions of white policemen but I do believe that black policemen have a strong responsibility to protect their people . |
| 12 | As I said on the second reading , I do believe that some areas will need to have larger authorities because of their size , or indeed their particular problems , geographical and otherwise . |
| 13 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
| 14 | Come to think of it , I did hear that those nuns had caught themselves a gypsy . |
| 15 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 16 | I had hoped that Scottish mountaineers , so proud of their heritage , would say , ‘ To hell with metres ’ , and remain loyal to the altitudes listed by Munro , but I now find , to my dismay , that the Scottish Mountaineering Club , the publishers of the Tables , in their most recent edition , have also succumbed to Europe and sacrificed a cherished independence by converting all heights to metres . |
| 17 | I had hoped that these weekends of dashing about Britain with estate agents ' details in my lap were a thing of the past . |
| 18 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 19 | I had known that open fields lay at the end of the runway , so I should have closed the throttle earlier and completed the familiar drill . |
| 20 | But as I said , I 've decided that human beings adjust themselves to any environment to which there is no alternative , and human life in here is the same as in the world outside , for which also there is no alternative . |
| 21 | I 've heard that Chinese carrots tend not to be as reliable as some Eastern European ones … |
| 22 | I 've heard that wild animals wo n't harm you if you 're carrying a torch . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've heard that old men lose their interest in women . ’ |
| 24 | I WRITE to ask if any readers of this letter will join me in the campaign to see justice done for the men accused of the crime of killing Carl Bridgewater in 1978 . |
| 25 | I wish to ensure that environmental considerations are properly taken into account . |
| 26 | However , since concepts , according to Frege , are essentially predicative , this automatically excludes singular existential propositions , and I have argued that such propositions can not be dismissed as " ungrammatical " . |
| 27 | Now at the moment I have decided that some things like suggestions erm , will not actually get an audit before the external audit by erm , B S I . |
| 28 | Without wishing to sound morbid , I have noticed that older women in partnerships express less fear of death , and I know many who discuss their ultimate demise openly . |
| 29 | I have seen that concrete blocks are cheaper to use for a garden wall ; would you recommend them ? |
| 30 | In the countries in which I have worked where tight regulations prescribe the teachers ' day , the opportunity for intelligent freedom of action is all too often curtailed and responses to the problems which children present are all too often determined by the paragraph and footnote of a rule book . |