Example sentences of "[is] [Wh adv] i [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own garden the twisted hazel , Corylus avellana ‘ Contorta ’ , is underplanted with primroses , bluebells and wood anemones , for that is how I remember them growing , as they still do , along the banks of the rive Greta . |
| 2 | Sanglemore is how I think they pronounce it . |
| 3 | That 's how I thought she 'd one it for my dad |
| 4 | That 's how I started you , that 's how I taught you to dance . ’ |
| 5 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 6 | But it 's not just the sore throat , it 's when I cough it hurts all over . |
| 7 | And that 's when I think it starts to get into into shady ground where where the woman has n't actually said no because she feels intimidated not by violence but by social pressure . |
| 8 | And that 's when I say we have a , a campaign which is going to , it 's a demonstration and er and rally in the end of March , of next year . |
| 9 | The only cleaning the house gets is when I force him to put the Hoover round on pain of a black eye . |
| 10 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 11 | ‘ That is why I asked you to meet me . |
| 12 | Which is why I felt I had to speak to you , Hans . |
| 13 | No matter what , no matter how accurate my allowances were , this is why I said I do n't really think it matters . |
| 14 | Absolutely and this is why I think they get round this , they 've solved this problem by saying okay folks , we will adopt a purely erm classificator or in other words fictitious , rigged system of kinship and we wo n't call there and that 's what they do . |
| 15 | Which is why I wanted you to take over the investigation from young Ebert . |
| 16 | That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you . |
| 17 | He 's alive and well and at present in the Tower of London which is why I want you to go to England for me . |
| 18 | Certainly I am not , which is why I gave it consent to borrow such a substantial amount of money . |
| 19 | Which is why I say we run the trainer trainer 's course . |
| 20 | Which is why I suggest you button your lip , except to mention that whatever she decides , you are on her side , supporting her through what 's going to be a painful experience . |
| 21 | And this is where I feel they have the edge over Norrington . |
| 22 | But for today I now want to turn to a number of erm definitions and classifications linked to foreign policy and this is where I want you to start working a bit harder . |
| 23 | Well I do n't , you see this is where I think it 's been sensationalised . |
| 24 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 25 | I said that 's why I thought she had you and Mi Michael with Mootty and Michelle . |
| 26 | She is — was — outstandingly able , that 's why I asked her to join us . ’ |
| 27 | That 's why I asked you to join us as soon as was possible . |
| 28 | So that 's why I had it done . |
| 29 | That 's why I said you have been caught ! |
| 30 | If you want to know something , that 's why I let you do the ordering this last year or so . |