Example sentences of "i [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes but I mean how you say if they 'd played their cards right , but are you saying just go down there and say to him ‘ get off ? ’ |
| 32 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 33 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 34 | I cry whenever I go to the zoo . |
| 35 | Missed that and er oh I forget where she went to . |
| 36 | In case I forget where I 've put it . |
| 37 | I forget how we learnt that he was coming under its auspices , but I do remember that our wish — that is to say , the wish of myself and Michael Cullis , by then an established friend — to entertain him during the visit , produced a minor clash with the English Club secretariat . |
| 38 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 39 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 40 | In Chapter Five I described how we disguise our motives in conversation through using sub-text . |
| 41 | How do I know when I 've found a sett ? |
| 42 | How will I know when I 've done it ? |
| 43 | Can I choose where I go on Work Experience ? |
| 44 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 45 | I noticed how he had slipped his feet under the exposed roots of trees — themselves held in the grasp of the hollow . |
| 46 | To make sure I jump whenever you tell me ? ’ |
| 47 | I watch how they smooth their hair when enter a room . |
| 48 | The hon. Gentleman mentioned the first ; in my original answer , I showed how we intend to work towards it . |
| 49 | he said alright , I , I , I was in trouble because I forgot where I hid them . |
| 50 | I forgot where she lived red light murders |
| 51 | I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story . |
| 52 | I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow . |
| 53 | ‘ I recall how I refused to hearken to the queen my mother 's fears for my brother 's safety — yet now I myself fear greatly for him ! ’ |
| 54 | I have seen my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford being poisonous or venomous , but neither poison nor venom did I detect when he raised a fair , sensible and extremely important matter that needs to be debated frankly and fully on the Floor of the House without the sort of ignorant , absurd and childish platitudes that we have so recently heard . |
| 55 | ‘ I think I know where we 've gone wrong . |
| 56 | Cos er , I , I used to say to them I know where they 've eat up or not , I do , and we 've got them . |
| 57 | I will let you into a secret , I know where they get them from , or got three of them anyway . |
| 58 | Of course , she keeps them locked — her precious ‘ confidentiality ’ — but I know where she keeps the spare key . ’ |
| 59 | I 'll send you round her house , I know where she lives |
| 60 | Maggie has no phone , but I know where she works . |