Example sentences of "[verb] i [Wh adv] i " 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 | After eating the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron which he must have liked , he asked me where I came from . |
3 | So when the Sergeant-Major asked me where I hoped to be posted eventually , I told him the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes ; this did n't surprise him as most British recruits said the same thing . |
4 | Well , he could remember , and he was n't afraid , for he could remember even now … and Kraal began to speak ‘ You asked me where I came from , Creggan , and I will tell you . |
5 | In the event , the culmination of the relationship occurred when the telephone rang one day and in a suspiciously silky voice George asked me where I thought the Derby Cup was . |
6 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
7 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
8 | Back in the changing room at the end of the period Alec Davidson casually asked me why I always put my shoes inside my satchel during the gym lesson . |
9 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
10 | ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys . |
11 | Nellie rounded on me angrily and asked me why I wanted to know . |
12 | A friend of mine once asked me why I always sought to heighten experiences , and could not be satisfied with the middle ground . |
13 | Also , some cheeky oik ( ca n't remember his name ) asked me why I never put any of my personal scores in this section . |
14 | When they asked me why I did n't have a British passport that 's when the immigration problems started . |
15 | This woman , an assistant governor , I think , asked me why I did it . |
16 | They asked me why I tried to do it — whether I was attention-seeking ! |
17 | She asked me why I tried to commit suicide . |
18 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
19 | Instead , she asked me why I thought I drank so much , and I told her why I thought I did . |
20 | My father asked me why I said these awful things . |
21 | ‘ What did you do in the war , then , daddy ? ’ they asked me when I returned . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Immediately she asked me when I might be free , but I was able to murmur , ‘ It 's a little difficult , Mrs Fawcett , until I get around a bit more and establish some duty rosters . ’ |
24 | They asked me how I wanted the neck and slits . |
25 | My in-laws never asked me how I was . |
26 | When Thomas Carter asked me how I liked Oxford , I made a wry face and said , ‘ Mmmm … ’ |
27 | I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else . |
28 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
29 | Nobody went on about my injury — just asked me how I was getting along in Italy . ’ |
30 | I went to the hospital and they asked me how I done it . |