Example sentences of "i [Wh adv] it " in BNC.

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1 Do n't ask me how it 's done , but that 's the correct answer .
2 Do not ask me how it can be , I have no idea .
3 While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked .
4 I asked Maureen about this strange and spectacular bird , and she told me how it came to be in her care .
5 I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done .
6 ‘ Bring it out , ’ he ordered me , ‘ and show me how it works . ’
7 Well , she told me how it come to be closed .
8 And she would say : ‘ Tell me how it happened , Rupert .
9 The last two guides showed me how it was done , climbing quickly and fearlessly down the face .
10 ‘ I can never get you to tell me how it makes you feel , what it communicates . ’
11 ‘ Show me how it works . ’
12 Then , when she began to tell me how it happened , and what you 'd told her , about Gittel and the curse , the scales fell from my eyes .
13 ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened .
14 I am aware that it is a bit confusing — several people have asked me how it fits in with Stoddard Templeton and whether we are not in fact competing with ourselves .
15 And if he started boring on about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts , I would interrupt him : " Never mind about that , tell me how it works . "
16 ‘ Tell me how it makes you feel ? ’
17 And indeed , did not continue to tell her what that something else had been , but invited , ‘ Would you like to tell me how it came that , however badly , you attempted to impersonate your journalist sister ? ’
18 and er D er er Dave was showing me how it works and he went out and the little one was saying I 'll do it for you granddad , look this is how you do it , and she starts typing away , and she 's four !
19 No on the word you showed me how it could possibly
20 Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ?
21 Will my right hon. Friend explain to a simple fellow like me why it is considered sensible to return to a system of socialist taxation based on the capital value of an asset that produces no income and that is unrelated to the services for which the occupant is paying and to the income of the occupant , this asset being normally called a home ?
22 Just tell me why it had to be me who was stupid enough to help you last night ? ’
23 He panted and said , ‘ I can still get it back if you show me where it fell . ’
24 ( You might also try last year 's ‘ She who weeps ’ [ JMT ] ; the beautiful song New African Blues certainly received a deal of wholly warranted airplay from London jazz station Jazz FM and many people have asked me where it came from .
25 I 'll make the servants tell me where it is .
26 ‘ Tell me where it came from . ’
27 They ca n't tell me where it comes , pardon ?
28 The woman at the villa , Barbara Coleman , would n't tell me where it was and so I went to Durance and he was equally determined about it .
29 Tell me where it is . ’
30 Well , well when you tell me where it is I 'll do something about it .
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