Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [Wh adv] it [verb] " 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 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The most important factor in ‘ free stretching ’ is that you know when it hurts and how far you can go , making it possible for you to immediately release the stretch should you need to . |
| 5 | Oh , I suppose you 've been in love , probably several times , so you know how it feels to hold someone , and perhaps what I 'm feeling is what anybody feels when their life is startled and transformed . |
| 6 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 7 | If we are to understand the complex relationship between people and the planet upon which they live then it is essential that we understand how it has evolved over time . |
| 8 | The mortar just appeared in an anonymous donation and no-one knows where it came from . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 12 | I can just say that I 've clocked it , even though I can I just I ca n't clock it yeah I can just say I could cos I know how it end . |
| 13 | And you know where it went . |
| 14 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 15 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 16 | You can say no to that inner voice if you know where it comes from and why it says the things it does . |
| 17 | Throughout the novel we watch and observe Pip 's progress in life , as he grows up , and we see how it affects him . |
| 18 | A roman coin belonging to the fourth year of the reign of Diocletian , AD 287 , was found on an island in Finlaggan Loch and one wonders how it got there . |
| 19 | our mutual it helps them if we know how it works it helps us if we know what problems they encounter |
| 20 | They state that crime did not rise then , and they ask why it did not rise then . |
| 21 | I appeal to the Government to think again , this is going down the wrong road , we do not need these appointed , these appointees appointed by the Home Office and they know how it 's done , they know this new method , but there is the list of the greater the good , and if there 's of course there will be a bias one way or the other arising out of the very method by which it is done . |
| 22 | Put it on at seven o'clock er Emmerdale Farm , but you see when it goes on you feel as though you 're tongue tied all be completely anonymous these are all same , but they 're different |
| 23 | you see and like eighty six , now this year , I shall be eighty seven but you see when it comes to the end of the year , the turn of the year , I 'll still be eighty seven |
| 24 | ‘ I know that , darling , but one wonders how it happens with such unfailing regularity . ’ |
| 25 | Lorton had n't been to confession for 25 years , but he remembered how it felt . |
| 26 | And we are called upon , as Astrid says , to sort of , you know ‘ this is n't working , can you fix it , because you know how it works ’ , and that 's fair enough , but I 'm not called on by somebody in the press to fix a typewriter . |
| 27 | I heaved myself out , folded my own blanket , lifted the boards and sorted everything till it looked how it 'd looked last night . |
| 28 | So long as nobody knows how it started . ’ |
| 29 | Robyn 's voice trailed away unhappily , as she remembered how it had felt to have him reject her . |
| 30 | As long as it says how it operates |