Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do understand that many people think wild animals roam over very large spaces and therefore feel cramped if they are kept in restricted areas but most have territories , areas which they mark out for themselves in various ways , and spend all their time inside these territories anyway and consequently they can consider their enclosure as being their own territory . |
| 32 | I do understand that some people with my condition have to take goodness knows how many tablets of one sort or another each and every day , so I suppose I am fortunate . |
| 33 | Come to think of it , I did hear that those nuns had caught themselves a gypsy . |
| 34 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 35 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |
| 36 | I had seen that ominous trembling of the limbs before and now the filly was beginning to sway a little . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I had hoped that some progress would be made in the autumn and I am disappointed that that has not happened . |
| 40 | I had hoped that these weekends of dashing about Britain with estate agents ' details in my lap were a thing of the past . |
| 41 | Yes I I I had noted that that discussion had gone on and assurances have been given to Humberside that North Yorkshire would no stray in the sense of putting their new settlement into Humberside . |
| 42 | I had thought that high crime was dog-earing and the highest of all writing comments in the margin . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Erm and er I 've felt that same sense of rightness at many times over these years , this is now our thirty seventh year ? |
| 48 | I 've noticed that most people over the age of forty whinge like a chainsaw about their memory not being as good as it used to be , or not being as good as they wish it were . |
| 49 | In only the last two years I 've noticed that more people are being drawn to the hills in Northern Ireland . |
| 50 | I 've heard that Chinese carrots tend not to be as reliable as some Eastern European ones … |
| 51 | I 've heard that wild animals wo n't harm you if you 're carrying a torch . ’ |
| 52 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
| 53 | I 've heard that this farm was a very busy place on Tuesday nights and Wednesday mornings and the kitchen would be piled high with eggs and butter . |
| 54 | ‘ I 've heard that old men lose their interest in women . ’ |
| 55 | I 've found that regular spraying has little effect when the air is dry for so long . |
| 56 | ‘ I 've learned that this year , ’ continues Simmons . |
| 57 | I wish to ensure that environmental considerations are properly taken into account . |
| 58 | and I need to ensure that this experience erm well I I need to make sure that I will be evaluating it in a similar way as I went along . |
| 59 | I have reached that perverse age in life ( why be coy — it 's 46 ) when contemporaries start growing younger . |
| 60 | I have to say that each morning when I walk off platform 16 , I invariably see five or six BR employees hanging around doing nothing in particular . |