Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 2 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 3 | Idly I wondered why he insisted on them being cooked sunny side up . |
| 4 | a really strong ruler who can tell me what to do so I know where I stand and so on . |
| 5 | And ma , mark it off your card so I know where I am . |
| 6 | It 's only my Walkman but you see she nicked my Walkman and left this and th i er I 'm keeping clipped on here so I know where it is , cos if it 's in my bag I 'll lose it . |
| 7 | It 's something off , it 's just the attachment that goes from ma , my mum 's Walkman and she nicked off with it when it was at when we were at her house and if I lo , if I keep it anywhere else I 'll lose it so I 've clipped it on to there so I know where it is . |
| 8 | So I know whereof I speak . |
| 9 | so I stayed where I was . |
| 10 | Later I see where it has crashed . |
| 11 | ‘ OK , now I know where I stand — absolutely nowhere ! ’ |
| 12 | I was puzzled at first but now I know why they do it , why they stretch their throats like that . |
| 13 | So now I know why they tell you fill this as you go along cos you forget what |
| 14 | Now I know why he whacked me , I would whack me too . |
| 15 | Now I know why it was called the Strategy Unit . |
| 16 | So now I know why it 's on my shopping list . |
| 17 | ‘ Now I know why you wear those glasses . ’ |
| 18 | Marguerite 's rush of words almost drowned out Alain 's harsh intake of breath , but he said nothing at all as Marguerite went on , ‘ Now I know why you could not stay longer . |
| 19 | ‘ Now I know why you asked me to come with you , ’ Robbie complained a little later , as she struggled back along the towpath with her share of the load . |
| 20 | Now I know how he must have felt . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 22 | Now I knew why they were so sad , and why they were poor . |
| 23 | ‘ Now I wonder why you would be interested in Steen 's will , Charles . |
| 24 | Now I wonder where you got that expression from ? |
| 25 | I said to Dave now I wonder how we ever lived without this . |
| 26 | Then , as with fuller information he feels himself being moved in the opposite direction , he can say to himself ‘ Ah , now I see why I ought not to go ’ . |
| 27 | Ah now I see how it 's tying in . |
| 28 | Now I understand why they paid Macaulay Culkin $3 million — he earned it . |
| 29 | Now I understand why he wants to kill Sir Henry . |
| 30 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |