Example sentences of "i [verb] [Wh adv] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked where I should send the woman I was told to contact the neurosurgical bed manager , who would tell me which ward to send her to . |
| 2 | I asked why he could n't just plead guilty . |
| 3 | And , if you recall , I asked how she could be so sure . |
| 4 | I mean why there should n't be cooking oil in in in landfill . |
| 5 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 6 | Afterwards , too late , I realized how I should have used my twenty-two seconds . |
| 7 | In my last comments I mentioned how everyone can influence our performance in the Division . |
| 8 | He said he 'd just come back from Amsterdam and he had tried some and said it was great and did I know where he could get some . |
| 9 | And I learnt how we could organize to improve our conditions through sharing as a community . |
| 10 | I recall how he used to tell the story of the three pigs : when the wolf ate the pigs who 'd built their houses of straw and twigs , my father would gather me up and rub his bristly face against mine , saying , ‘ Gnaggle , gnaggle , gnaggle . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well I know where we 'll get a drink — and enjoy a sight better company than we 'd have got back there . ’ |
| 12 | Think I know where we can hang it . |
| 13 | Come on I know where we can go . |
| 14 | They all want to go to brothels in the evening and they think I know where they can be found . |
| 15 | I know where she used to live . |
| 16 | ‘ I think I know where you will be tonight ! ’ laughed the girl . |
| 17 | Yeah , I know where you can write to , yeah . |
| 18 | I know where you can get a new keyboard . |
| 19 | I know where he 'll be . |
| 20 | ‘ I know where he 'll go . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Tell you what , ’ he said , ‘ I know where it will fetch up , more than likely . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been to the Royal and I know where I 'd sooner be . |
| 23 | Du n no I know where I 'd like to park Not here . |
| 24 | Then changing the subject completely from milk and children to the necessity for a clean yard , he said , ‘ I know where I can get some broken slabs . |
| 25 | ‘ I know where I can find him around lunchtime . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm for Shrewsbury , I know where I can get a horse there ’ |
| 27 | I know where I could use those . |
| 28 | I think I know when it will make some more sky . ’ |
| 29 | I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing . |
| 30 | I know when I used to come to your dancing classes is n't it ? |