Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] it " 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 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 3 | That I believe now it 's run by the ladies that took over some while ago . |
| 4 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |
| 5 | ‘ Any more than I understand why it 's so important for you to find Garry . |
| 6 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 9 | ‘ There was no sign to say the drain was uncovered and I fell down it , cutting my leg and ankle and ruining my shoes , socks and slacks , ’ he writes . |
| 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 | " " No , " said Prince Rainbow , " for I have heard of that trick of yours , El-ahrairah , and I know how it is done . " |
| 12 | ‘ I know what you did and I know how it was done . |
| 13 | And I says well it is two different meanings the one I 'm using is just if you can spare it , if you can it . |
| 14 | Well my brother was in the Artillery and I thought well it be nice if I can get with him but that did n't work out that way . |
| 15 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 16 | I thought about you , about what time was it , about ten o'clock and I thought well it 's no good gasping for air , she 'll soon be able to have some yeah . |
| 17 | And I thought well it 's going to be awkward to get a piece of wood for that I mean knowing your dad with wood I know Anyhow I said er it 's just the right height for me |
| 18 | And I looked at them and I thought well it 's a lot of money to pay out , we 'll see what comes in . |
| 19 | And I thought well it 's clean |
| 20 | But , ca n't do that , and I thought well it does n't really matter . |
| 21 | Coming to the 18th , he said he 'd never had five birdies in a row , and I thought perhaps it was going to stay that way because he put his second way through the green . |
| 22 | And I said here it is. sort the girls out |
| 23 | one thing and another and I said oh I do n't know , and there are Sunday and said look about taking Matthew , why do n't you let him go and I said well it 's a , it 's a long time , you know for |
| 24 | the shopping and the cooking and the sa , she made a remark , abo , and I said well it 's always the same even if you go out to work it 's still your job |
| 25 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 26 | well he 's going through it and he said well it looks alright to me and I say well it does n't look as if it 's connected , any way I won , I could see why then it did n't look connected |
| 27 | It was the worst of all Coney Island 's dark corners , and I ventured down it , calling his name and looking in dirty windows . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Normally they only meet outside and I wonder how it would be when they were indoors and Cedric started to … when the old trouble … " |
| 30 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |