Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe me , it wo n't happen — although I understand why you think it might . |
| 2 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 5 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 8 | I was n't always a successful businessman and I remember where I come from . ’ |
| 9 | And er he and I know where he worked at Brass Foundry on Road , and he fell ill . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 12 | Only you and I know how I survived . |
| 13 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | I enjoyed it and I understand how you feel . |
| 16 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 17 | ‘ No news at all , ’ she warned , ‘ until I know how you 've been … and whether you are on the mend . ’ |
| 18 | Oh this is this is you here is it ? the other side of the , cos I know when we tried to take photo 's off John , tried to take photo 's of John on the television because he could n't do it with all the flash or . |
| 19 | Cos I know when I went to the warehouse |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cos I remember when you did twenty seven . |
| 22 | But I remember when you said that that last year |
| 23 | I did n't , but I remember when you said that , that last year when I counted up |
| 24 | Yes but I mean how you say if they 'd played their cards right , but are you saying just go down there and say to him ‘ get off ? ’ |
| 25 | Of course , she keeps them locked — her precious ‘ confidentiality ’ — but I know where she keeps the spare key . ’ |
| 26 | Maggie has no phone , but I know where she works . |
| 27 | But I know when we went in Co-op the other day , last week were it there was a load |
| 28 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 29 | But I know why I feel guilty . |
| 30 | In my professional work , I repeatedly have conversations with educated clients — especially male clients — which go something like this : " Yes , yes — you 've told me what you think , and what you did , but I wonder how you felt ? " |