Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I intend to see that it gets it . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to swallow and it hurt . |
| 3 | I expect to hear that it matches Dr Darnell 's fingernails . |
| 4 | I want to submit that it means that we do not go to the world with a watertight message which demands ‘ take it or leave it ’ . |
| 5 | There are a couple of things I want to do before it reaches us . ’ |
| 6 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 7 | I wait to hear if it stops . |
| 8 | In spite of all this secrecy , I happen to know that it takes the form of a humorous catalogue of my supposed states of mind , arranged from one to ten like the Beaufort Scale . |
| 9 | Now what we 're on about yeah as I were on about , that er what I do is , with days like this , cos you can never guarantee if they 're gon na be dry , wet or what , so I watch to see if it rains , if it do n't they 're virtually dry when I fetch them in . |
| 10 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |
| 11 | I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality . |
| 12 | I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition . |
| 13 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 14 | It is a straight-down-the-middle view of the work , and given the number of rough edges I have to wonder whether it has anything more to offer than a dozen more successfully recorded alternatives . |
| 15 | ‘ I have to believe that it comes from angels , or spirit beings . ’ |
| 16 | The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not . |