Example sentences of "i [verb] know [Wh det] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the family home in Betchworth , Surrey , Nicholas 's stunned father Peter said : ‘ I want to know what I can legally say about this whole sad and unhappy upset . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Sir Danvers Carew was my client , but you are my client too , and I want to know what I 'm doing . |
| 3 | I want to know what I 'm talking about . |
| 4 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 5 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 6 | That 's what he said , if I 'd known what I know now , he said I would n't of paid it ! |
| 7 | natural and I 'm and I never was , but I like to know what I 'm voting for and I like to tell the people who I 'm responsible for what they are voting for . |
| 8 | Now , are we sticking with the allocation that we had in the past , peoples responsibility , or when we change them in this sort of way are we mucking them about ? 'Cos I like to know what I am responsible for and what I 'm not . |
| 9 | Surely it is implausible to suppose , taking Russell 's example , that I do know what I did yesterday but I do n't know that the world did not begin five minutes ago replete with archaeological and other traces ( Russell , 1921 , p. 159 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm getting fed up with people telling me that , because I think at last I do know what I 'm doing . |
| 11 | ‘ I do know what I 'm talking about , Folly . |
| 12 | Well I do know what I want to do , but it 's knocked me for six cos I sort of felt really guilty |
| 13 | So I 've known what I 've given people for like the year before . |
| 14 | For the last two days I have known what I lost when I left you and , while you should not have believed Havvie , I can understand why you did . |