Example sentences of "[coord] that i [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or that I 'm going to say no we 're not paying |
| 2 | And I thought he was a nightmare or that I was going out of my mind . |
| 3 | He knows the pressures that we are under and that I am trying to do my best to improve some of the apparent weaknesses . |
| 4 | The only excuse I have is that I was very young , a marvellous justification for most reprobate behaviour , and that I was wearing an uncomfortable vest . |
| 5 | It seemed the weather had beaten me and that I was wasting my time . |
| 6 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 7 | ‘ I told them my brother could be lying dead somewhere and they said they did n't care and that I was mucking them about , ’ said 18-year-old Joanne , of Stoneleigh , Surrey , yesterday . |
| 8 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 9 | But Henry noticed how thin I was , and that I was laughing too much and could not sit still . |
| 10 | The fact that I had people to speak for me at the trial and that I was doing community work did n't appear to mean much to them . |
| 11 | ‘ I told him that I did n't give a rat 's arse , and that I was doing the best I could . ’ |
| 12 | Then I imagined it was all through my body and that I was going to die . |
| 13 | The story was so mad that your brother was being told to shoot Martin Meehan and that I was going to be interned for doing nothing . ’ |
| 14 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 15 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , by the way , tell him I 'll be free for the meeting on Tuesday of next week and that I 'm looking forward to it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Because it suits me for Louis to believe I have problems , and that I 'm trying to forget them in the arms of an attractive young woman I 'm not willing to share . ’ |
| 18 | And even when I learned you were a prying journalist — and when I 've always preferred my walks to be solitary — what do I find but that I 'm asking if you would like to walk with me ! ’ |