Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [Wh 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 | ‘ Any more than I understand why it 's so important for you to find Garry . |
| 3 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " " No , " said Prince Rainbow , " for I have heard of that trick of yours , El-ahrairah , and I know how it is done . " |
| 7 | ‘ I know what you did and I know how it was done . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Normally they only meet outside and I wonder how it would be when they were indoors and Cedric started to … when the old trouble … " |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | If I knew where it was , do you think I 'd get blown up time after time . ’ |
| 12 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 13 | But I 'm damned if I know where it 's coming from . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Not since I realised how it was reared , think of shutting out the daylight all their lives . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When I think how it was when I joined up … you 're not so badly off down in Florence where at least you 've got a central canteen , but ever since we 've had to do without a resident housekeeper in the smaller stations we 've had to spend half our time teaching mothers ’ boys to cook pasta . ’ |
| 17 | As long as I know where it is . |