Example sentences of "that i [verb] [adv] [verb] it " in BNC.
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1 | It 's not emotional blackmail — but once or twice recently , I 've felt that I 've nearly bought it . |
2 | It 's I 've I was telling David outside that I 've absolutely butchered it and I it 's erm two thousand one hundred and sixty . |
3 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
4 | I do n't remember that I 've never seen it on any minutes |
5 | Maybe it works in the case of God ; I 've always been so afraid it would n't that I 've never tried it . |
6 | It 's not that I get reasonably excited it 'll be okay . |
7 | Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that , |
8 | That I 'd actually done it I suppose . |
9 | " I told her , " said Mrs Maugham , handing her daughter a plastic butter dish , " that I 'd never seen it . " |
10 | I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it . |
11 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |
12 | You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time . |
13 | I 'm er I 'm pretty clear what 's expected of me but not so certain that I know how to make it sufficiently interesting to achieve your undivided attention . |
14 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
15 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
16 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
17 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
18 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
19 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
20 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
21 | On the wall of that room was a patch where the barometer had hung — so familiar a face that I had hardly realized it was there . |
22 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
23 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
24 | It 's not that I do n't wann it . |
25 | Stu , I mean I live in Glasgow , the chances of me leaving Glasgow are pro , pre pretty slim but yeah , I certainly do n't want to stay in Scotland because of any loyalty , that I do n't think it 's given me very much other than a lot of experience , a lot of struggle , a lot of opportunities to stand alongside working class people and fight against , you know , the injustices . |
26 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
27 | Well what I am saying is that I do n't think it is his primary concern . |
28 | it 's not smooth , it 's not that I do n't think it does . |
29 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
30 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't find it very difficult to multiply one number by another . ’ |