Example sentences of "i [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 3 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 4 | Oh well tick me off if it does |
| 5 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 6 | Gushing statements to the young person about how this is for their own good , or ‘ this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you ’ ( attitudes which are still prevalent ) are quite unhelpful , virtually damaging in fact . |
| 7 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 8 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ? |
| 10 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 11 | The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words . |
| 12 | This is a highly competitive field and I did n't want them to rule me out when it comes to promotion because they think I lack commitment . |
| 13 | But they tell me now that it 's been increased immensely now what they get for being an oven man . |
| 14 | I said the libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Fridays , why do n't you come to the library with me today because it 's closed on a Wednesday and Friday . |
| 15 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 16 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 17 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |