Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A classic example is the agoraphobic housewife whose husband is , ‘ really wonderful , very sympathetic and understanding … he does everything for me … he comes around all the shops with me and drives me wherever I want to go ’ . |
| 2 | Nellie rounded on me angrily and asked me why I wanted to know . |
| 3 | They asked me why I tried to do it — whether I was attention-seeking ! |
| 4 | She asked me why I tried to commit suicide . |
| 5 | He asked me when I wanted to do the interview , I was going out of the hotel and so we 'd do it when I got back . |
| 6 | Something about the bat itself , the resined or saddlesoaped grain of its surface , offered unwelcome clarity , reminding me why I had stayed away from Scheldt 's and the sweet black chicks and their bargain blowjobs . |
| 7 | She was getting better at knowing what to do when people were sick and asked them how it had happened . |
| 8 | ‘ It beats me why you want to fly with us at all , Gabriel , ’ Rogers said . |
| 9 | " Beats me why he had to stick his neck out . |
| 10 | Tomorrow , he promised her whenever she tried to ask him anything . |
| 11 | As he and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West know , my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , in his personal capacity as Law Officer of the Crown and not as a Minister , came to the House to inform it how he intended to proceed . |
| 12 | When he told them how he had thrown the Bible , Mrs Wood gave a little scream . |
| 13 | I told them how I had worked on the problem and now one of them had ruined my theory ! |
| 14 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 15 | ‘ What 'd happen if I told them how you 'd cheated ? ’ |
| 16 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 17 | He told me how he had had problems when young and had assumed that upon his marriage , he would break the habit . |
| 18 | ‘ You never told me how you managed to get the money out of him , ’ she gasped . |
| 19 | He told me how you tried to rescue him . |
| 20 | ‘ Eleanor told me how she had visited you and your mother a little while ago . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Hillaby , the present clerk of the course , told me how she has seen horses collapse at the finish , and one had even laid down and died through being ridden too hard . |
| 22 | Let us show you how we have done this . |
| 23 | We told him why we had come . |
| 24 | I told him how he had put up a man who was interdit de séjour … . |
| 25 | ‘ I told him how I had to go for special lessons and how other kids would sometimes laugh or pick on me . |
| 26 | Mary told him how she had taken provisions to Granny Fordham , then seen the deer in the back of the car , and been chased , and finally how she had cross the marsh to reach the keeper before the raiders got away . |
| 27 | While Rain finished her breakfast , Tim told her how he had decided to see her again and how he found out from Barbara Coleman when the next visit to the villa would be . |
| 28 | Peter told her how he had hovered on the margin of death for nearly six months . |
| 29 | A German tourist we met there , who had come tourist class from Cuzco , told us how she had given money and pens at each stop to the children who crowded the carriage windows . |
| 30 | He also told us how he had nourished the fire of hate inside him , ever since as a child of seven he had been spat upon by a white man . |