Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Of course , she keeps them locked — her precious ‘ confidentiality ’ — but I know where she keeps the spare key . ’ |
| 7 | Maggie has no phone , but I know where she works . |