Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 2 | Dad told him I 'd lost that labouring job and he said if that was what I wanted to do , he had a job repairing houses he owns . ’ |
| 3 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 4 | But since the pain I have to experience to learn the concept is necessarily my pain , this explanation leads to our asking ourselves the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? ’ — a question which invites the answers , ‘ None ’ ( solipsism ) or , alternatively ‘ An argument from analogy ’ . |
| 5 | In its absence we would n't even be able to understand the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? , let alone the answers that have been given to it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had seen that ominous trembling of the limbs before and now the filly was beginning to sway a little . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had thought that high crime was dog-earing and the highest of all writing comments in the margin . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've heard that Chinese carrots tend not to be as reliable as some Eastern European ones … |
| 16 | I 've heard that wild animals wo n't harm you if you 're carrying a torch . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've heard that old men lose their interest in women . ’ |
| 18 | I 've found that regular spraying has little effect when the air is dry for so long . |
| 19 | I wish to ensure that environmental considerations are properly taken into account . |
| 20 | I have reached that perverse age in life ( why be coy — it 's 46 ) when contemporaries start growing younger . |
| 21 | In this paper I have argued that criminal law is an extremely sophisticated , demanding and complex subject which can be presented as an ‘ introductory ’ course in legal education only by serious amputation and therefore distortion . |
| 22 | Finally , I have argued that urban sociology 's key concern is the division between everyday life being led in small-scale localities and the fact that social relations and processes are increasingly organised at a global level . |
| 23 | Like middle age , this takes me unawares , for even when I have noticed that single paragraph on the front page of newspapers , I still ca n't work out what is happening . |
| 24 | I have seen that concrete blocks are cheaper to use for a garden wall ; would you recommend them ? |
| 25 | Nevertheless , I have found that limited zero grazing is a very useful way to feed grass from the orchard and garden to my house cow . |
| 26 | ‘ I have found that mere appeal to reason does not answer where prejudices are agelong and based on supposed religious authority . |
| 27 | I have suggested that official LEA policies on ‘ race ’ and gender reflect each other and contain similar kinds of rhetoric ; significantly local policies in both areas have ignored social class inequalities , and have both tended to isolate education from wider debates concerning inequalities . |
| 28 | To conclude : I have suggested that conversational interactions , not just for speakers who obviously " straddle two cultures " but even for those who have traditionally been called " monolingual " and " monocultural " , involve the speaker in animating a series of personas which are realised linguistically and derive their symbolic value from their association with stereotypes which have reality and symbolic value for the interactants . |
| 29 | I have suggested that classical criminology can be formulated in terms of some basic assumptions about the nature of human beings and of criminal action . |
| 30 | I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance . |