Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy could see no mark on the body to indicate how she had died . |
| 2 | Both Betty and Lydia found this odd and wanted to know how they 'd managed . |
| 3 | He did not want his girlfriend to know how he had deceived her with another woman . |
| 4 | He describes an extraordinary incident when , after top police officers had left , other men involved in the torture spoke to him , wanting to know how he had resisted . |
| 5 | They were burning to know how he had got on in New York , and Isobel asked him . |
| 6 | She did n't need to be Sherlock Holmes to know how he had picked up his nick-name . |
| 7 | Local reporters were keen to know how he managed to carry out his civic duties , to which Mr Snyder replied blithely that fellow committee members sat beside him during screenings and gave a running commentary ‘ to fill me in when the screen goes silent ’ . |
| 8 | I looked up , startled to find how I had forgotten everything but the antics of these two monstrous beings . |
| 9 | She sought to discover where he had obtained the information he was supposed to have passed on to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 10 | I did not want anybody to know where I had come from . |
| 11 | And the Turk 's Head stayed shut with padlocks on the doors and the windows boarded up , and Uncle Titch went away and no one seemed to know where he 'd gone to , not even William 's grandad , and no one seemed to know whether he 'd taken his fairground with him or whether it was still there behind the shutters and the padlocked doors in the dark rooms with the bloodstains still on the walls and floors . |
| 12 | ‘ They wanted our money but did not want anyone to know where it had come from . |
| 13 | Too arrogant indeed , to know when he had failed . |
| 14 | If I had , I should also have had the sense to know when I had achieved it , and therefore when to start eating normally again . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to know why you came to look for me . ’ |
| 16 | They wanted to know why she kept producing girls . |
| 17 | They were to remember how they had come : ‘ You must remember all that road by which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness . ’ |
| 18 | It was becoming difficult to remember how it had looked fifteen months ago , before Amy and Timmy had entered his life ; the homemade shelves of orange boxes ranged against the wall which had held his books , the two mugs , two plates and one soup bowl , which had been adequate for his needs , neatly stacked in the cupboard , the excessive cleanliness of the small kitchen and lavatory , his bed smooth under the coverlet of knitted woollen squares , the single hanging cupboard which had been sufficient for his meagre wardrobe , his other possessions boxed and tidily stowed in the chest under the seat . |
| 19 | I was too sleepy to wonder how he 'd managed , at this time of night . ’ |
| 20 | Artemis frowned , trying to remember where she had seen her before , and then she remembered . |
| 21 | Athelstan half listened to Cranston 's chatter , trying to remember where he had seen the painting of Eve in the garden enchanted by the serpent . |
| 22 | Rincewind tried to remember where he had seen it before . |
| 23 | There was a pause while Ryan tried to remember where he had got to . |
| 24 | We were proud to welcome Wayne C. Fairbrother who survived after 188 days wandering round a Birmingham multi-storey car park trying to remember where he had left his blue Sierra . |
| 25 | He was curious to remember where he 'd seen that impudent young face before . |
| 26 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 27 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |
| 28 | The fervent confirmation carried all the passionate intensity of the emotion he had always incited , but for a panicky moment Maria could n't remember why she hated him , and , when she did , the alien way in which her newly traitorous mind was functioning forced her to wonder why she needed to hate him . |
| 29 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 30 | She loved to hear how she had pointed to them and said , ‘ Moo ! ’ and we had said , ‘ No , darling . |