Example sentences of "i [verb] it [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 2 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 3 | Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon . |
| 4 | The problem I must admit the problem that surprised me with overheads is that erm people ca n't write and listen at the same time , or the other thing is , you put something on an overhead th every bit of it gets written down which is why I adapted it so that you did . |
| 5 | How can I set it so that , soon as I do file retrieve , it lists the files from that directory ? |
| 6 | I recall from when I saw it later that it made excellent footage . |
| 7 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 8 | As there is every advantage to a team cheating , I thought it right that the sporting authorities had stomped on McLaren for an avoidable mistake , and I retain that view . |
| 9 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 10 | ‘ And I do it so that people know I 've been around and I 've kept my eyes open . ’ |
| 11 | You may say also that I think it well that the musters of the northern counties should prepare themselves for possible action against the Scots at the same date , and those along the south coast should be ready to resist any assault by sea from my enemies in Europe . |
| 12 | Now it is not for me to give my opinion as to that and I do not , but I think it right that the general public should understand and be aware that this is now the law . ’ |
| 13 | I take it too that you are not a habitué of Boston . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I take it then that you neither have children of your own , nor indeed a hotel , ’ she said now , with more than a slight trace of sarcasm . |
| 15 | ‘ I take it then that you have also come in for your share of press flights of fancy ? ’ |