Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [Wh adv] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the show as buoyant as it is in these times , you will perhaps see why I have questioned his assertion that it is a local show and why I can absolutely refute the suggestion that we needed to discount . |
| 2 | She could not think why she had said it . |
| 3 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
| 4 | Rachaela did not know why she had participated . |
| 5 | She did not know why she had come . |
| 6 | Even his daughter did not know why he had chosen a house overlooking the railways or for that matter why he wanted to keep a school at all . |
| 7 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 8 | He did not know how he had got the door to this place to open . |
| 9 | The authorities claimed that Jorge Quintana Silva was rearrested because he had contravened the conditions of his earlier release , although they did not specify how he had done this . |
| 10 | Christopher Watts could not understand why he had attacked his wife . |
| 11 | I just can not understand why he has kept his job . |
| 12 | Becker , who expects to encounter the 25-year-old Swede in the Davis Cup final here in December , can not understand why he has drifted so long . |
| 13 | It seems all so mysterious — I can not understand why you have heard nothing … |
| 14 | But I was sure he did not understand why I had come . |
| 15 | They could not understand where I had come from , or how I could possibly survive . |
| 16 | Loopy Lil stared round at the destruction with a look of hopelessness as though she did not understand how it had happened . |
| 17 | I felt that you would not see why I had gone abroad . |
| 18 | And when you see the features of each instrument , and hear the prices , you 'll soon see why they 've caused such a storm … |
| 19 | We 'll soon see when we 've seen it wo n't we ? |
| 20 | Yet somehow the galleries were open again and doing a brisk trade , and publishers could not remember when they had sold so many books . |
| 21 | He could not remember when he had felt as purely happy . |
| 22 | But she could not remember where she had heard them before . |
| 23 | Usually she could not remember why she had wandered off . |
| 24 | ‘ So let's just see where we 've got to . |
| 25 | From the hundreds of volumes at home , including Shakespeare , Chaucer , Spenser , Shelley , Keats , Byron , Tennyson , and Browning , the boys were encouraged to learn selected poems for recitation ; but Edward does not record where he had found and read Darwin 's Descent of Man and books of travel , sport , and natural history , especially the many copious draughts of Richard Jefferies . |
| 26 | A KUWAITI official questioned over the disappearance of £1 billion of public money said he could not recall where it had gone . |
| 27 | Sweetheart was alone when she came back into view , and Frankie could not recall when he had seen her look more beautiful . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ I can not imagine why you have returned here , Mr Bodenland . |
| 29 | I can not imagine why yours have started so quickly , unless they are older than they look — they may have been kept in conditions where they have not grown on , due to overcrowding , or because they have been left with their parents for too long . |
| 30 | They have information about daugh about my daughter which I do not , I can not imagine how they have obtained it , I am absolutely appalled . |