Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 2 | How do I best practise it and know that I am loving God ? " |
| 3 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 4 | It follows , on causalist and functionalist views , that I am understanding Chinese , which again seems absurd . |
| 5 | I am afraid to talk , afraid to open my mouth in case all the dammed-up love words that I am feeling flood out of it . |
| 6 | ‘ So interested , ’ Wexford said , ‘ that I 'm sending Detective Constable Loring down to find out who 's missing in the holiday towns and it might be worth our while to check with London too . ’ |
| 7 | The only reason that I 'm enjoying Neighbours again at the moment is that I have n't seen it for month and I 'm trying to work out which characters have changed , which characters are getting married to which other ones . |
| 8 | It 's only that I 'm sharing text books with the others |
| 9 | ‘ Not that I 'm dropping hints , darling ! ’ |
| 10 | When they rise to an equal level , like for instance if I have a choice between going to a woman doctor and a man doctor and they 're both on the GP list , I will choose the woman , because the woman has had to fight tooth and nail , probably , and work much harder , to get at an equal level with the man , so I would suspect that I 'm getting value for and quality there by going for the woman . |
| 11 | No , I 'll tell them first , you know that I 'm taking part in a survey , you know ? |
| 12 | Of course , Madame Duvalle will come over every month to see that I 'm doing things the right way and Monsieur Félix intends to spend quite a lot of time in London . |
| 13 | Not that I 'm putting money on any of them ! |
| 14 | ‘ I see , ’ he said when he learned that I was meeting Edward . |
| 15 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 16 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 17 | ‘ If the Chief Constable knew that I was seeing Patrick , all hell would break loose . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Sam found out that I was seeing Paula . |
| 19 | ‘ Before that I was modelling clothes for some of the best fashion-houses in London — and in Paris too , sometimes . ’ |
| 20 | One night , a Wednesday , I was told that I was leaving Holloway the next day to go up to Risley remand centre because my judge was at Sheffield . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 22 | There , in the fact that , that same evening , when I can promise you that I 've always been a most truthful man , I , to my own amazement , discovered that I was mouthing lies . ’ |
| 23 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 24 | In fact , although there was a cloud hanging over my future , I found to my surprise that I was enjoying life in the present more than I had before . |
| 25 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was really excited , believing that I was going places . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've told them that I was fighting Franco and he 's a Fascist the same as Hitler , but once these fellows get an idea in their heads they just do n't listen . ’ |
| 29 | He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal . |
| 30 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |