Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 2 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 3 | That I believe now it 's run by the ladies that took over some while ago . |
| 4 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 5 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 6 | And I have to sort it out , sit there , sort it out and then work out how much it 's gon na come to , and then I know then when I go to the shop I know what to get , and I know when it goes in the cupboard I know that I 'll have a meal for every day of the week . |
| 7 | But , ca n't do that , and I thought well it does n't really matter . |
| 8 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 9 | well he 's going through it and he said well it looks alright to me and I say well it does n't look as if it 's connected , any way I won , I could see why then it did n't look connected |
| 10 | But nonetheless — and for what it 's worth — this obsession with number seems to me sad , reductive and weird , and I wonder where it comes from ? |
| 11 | And er she 's the secretary for the Good Neighbour there was another man there from the , from the Good Neighbour who does like , the articles or the advertising , and I think probably it 's got to be her . |
| 12 | But if , if I stay here it means that we 've , we 've a , a ho a home in the , the base , and he 'll get a transfer back guaranteed transfer back within two or three years , so it means just travelling for for erm you know , that length of time . |
| 13 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 14 | Cos I think sometimes it does n't . |
| 15 | But I mean otherwise it 's got all the , all the good points in there , it 's a pity that councils do n't have these meaningful names |
| 16 | ‘ I am honoured by the prince 's interest — but I doubt not it stems from mere curiosity as to my connection with her for whom he has a brotherly fondness . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't dream of gloating but I think perhaps it does demonstrate there is a commercial expertise in the Football League which is continuing . |
| 18 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 19 | When I think back it seems to me they were all three of them looking for a groove to settle in — tramlines that would take them somewhere without them having to think where they were going . ’ |