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
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