Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 2 | I asked them where they were going . |
| 3 | So they agreed to let me play and I asked them where they wanted me . |
| 4 | I asked them how old she was ? |
| 5 | I asked him where he was goin' to get the pennies from , and he said he 'd nick them from the superintendent 's gas money . |
| 6 | When I arrived and called Bob Keller , an ABC News producer who had lived in Beirut and was now covering LA , I asked him where the Green Line was . |
| 7 | I asked him where he would like to go . |
| 8 | But when I asked him where he had been all he said was , ‘ Go back to sleep . ’ |
| 9 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 10 | I asked him why he had decided to marry me . |
| 11 | I asked him why he 'd lost his own teeth and he said the cause had been pyorrhea . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked him why the floorboards did n't float . ’ |
| 13 | I was a fool ; I ought to have let it go at that , but I asked him why he did n't approve — and had a regular tirade ! |
| 14 | ‘ I asked him why and he said because he could not talk or swallow , ’ she said at the time . |
| 15 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 16 | I asked him why the kid did n't use his own name , and he said maybe he thought Ben MacLean sorta sounded better . |
| 17 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 18 | Several months ago at a party I asked him why he had n't written a book about his years in the Himalaya . |
| 19 | Interviewing Giorgio Moroder earlier this year , I asked him why he and his co-producer , Pete Bellotte , had decided to extend ‘ Love To Love You Baby ’ into a 17-minute orgasmic epic . |
| 20 | I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends . |
| 21 | I asked him why he had to explore it on me . |
| 22 | I asked him why he did once and he said it was a more beautiful name . |
| 23 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 24 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 25 | I asked him why , and he said he could n't find any other way to show respect for that commodity . |
| 26 | I asked him why he bothered to help . |
| 27 | When I asked him why he said it would spoil the looks of his bicycle to have them fitted now . |
| 28 | ‘ Mummy , I 'm sorry , but I asked him why he hated me so much … anyway , I do n't mind — I 'm happy he 's not my father ! ’ |
| 29 | I asked him why he hit a 3-wood off the tee and he said he had to ; when he hits a driver he has absolutely no idea where the ball will go ! " |
| 30 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |