Example sentences of "[verb] i [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year actually on the job had taught me that it was n't quite so simple ! |
| 2 | When I read a novel the emotions aroused in me bring the experience of the events of the narrative into the present , but I am not likely to be misled into thinking it is actually happening for there are enough indicators in the environment to assure me that it is not . |
| 3 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 4 | I did n't expect my family to visit me because it was too far , but they could have wrote . |
| 5 | But someone told me that it is not the same as the passion fruit on sale at the shops and that the fruits are poisonous . |
| 6 | Police told me that it was probably taken by joyriders , and will end up miles away in somewhere like Bristol . |
| 7 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 8 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 9 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 10 | and let me unless it 's there to lose yeah , I mean |
| 11 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 12 | The worst thing about it was that nobody would believe me until it was too late . |
| 13 | Kāli had told me that it was no longer used , that if one more chip were taken the entire tree would topple . |
| 14 | They 're gon na phone me up and tell me when it 's so |
| 15 | Of course sometimes when it does n't work that depresses me because it 's not because it does n't work , it 's because of the constraints of the system that you can not make it work . |
| 16 | Yeah , it would n't surprise me because it 's quite , quite cold here |
| 17 | When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’ |
| 18 | And then And never made a mistake of course , he tried to teach me but it was just a waste of time . |
| 19 | M ; y niece , Alison , tells me that it 's very much ‘ the in-thing ’ to be ‘ going solo ’ these days . |
| 20 | He laughs as he tells me that it was very pretentious , but that when there were eleven gardeners ‘ it was OK to live in you know , especially during the war when you had all the people from Russia and Poland and so on ’ . |
| 21 | A comparative nothing' of a life , you might think ; and yet it did more to convince me that it was not my imagination at work than all the finery of a court lady could have done . |
| 22 | They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know . |
| 23 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
| 24 | Do you know , my psychiatrist spent hour after hour convincing me that it was all in the mind , that nobody really was out to get me , that the world was n't conspiring against me … |
| 25 | This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth . |
| 26 | Everything I have learnt teaches me that it is only when you work with rather than against people that achievement and lasting success is possible . |
| 27 | Yes , it was nice to sit and eat my lunch in peace , with no-one to interrupt me but it is not nice every morning to ‘ bye ’ and leave him in someone else 's care . |
| 28 | So I rang , I rang him last night and , they 're not away and they 've erm he was able to tell me that it was exactly a hundred pounds . |