Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this passage Thorpe J. was quite clearly not only bearing W. 's wishes in mind , but looking behind them to see why W. wished to remain where she was . |
| 2 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 3 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 4 | With four boys to keep in trousers she bought a pair of pants from the store , unpicked them to see how they were put together , cut a pattern from the pieces and never looked back . |
| 5 | Safety is always paramount to us in those matters and we are in discussion with them to see how best we can help . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember now , I know I 've had a go to have a look at them to see how , to see exactly how , cos what I thought , what I thought I was gon na do was , I did n't like the furniture of the , of the speakers and when I was keeping that system I was gon na remount the speakers in the box a bit more you know decorative |
| 7 | Well , Kim Barnes joined them to see how it 's done . |
| 8 | These measurements were vital to Jack Mason who relied upon me to confirm where he should hit his shots and how hard . |
| 9 | Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court , the court can transfer the proceedings to the correct court , allow them to continue where they are or strike them out ( r 7.12 ) . |
| 10 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |
| 11 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 12 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 13 | The next day Errol called me to see how I was . |
| 14 | This practical demonstration of working positively with conflict gives me confidence in your work and helps me to see how I can listen better to others . |
| 15 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 16 | But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be . |
| 17 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 18 | I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job . |
| 19 | Oh it does hurt me to see how much the girls have spent on Christmas wrapping paper |
| 20 | If you make extra contributions , you can use them to retire whenever you like between 50 and 75 . |
| 21 | ( It had surprised me to find how fussy he was about some things ; dust , and scrappy meals really bothered him . ) |
| 22 | We certainly know each other very well — well enough for me to know when he 's feeling himself and when he is not . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'll be pestering me to know when they can see you again … ’ |
| 24 | You dump it in there and then you suddenly expect me to know where it all is and I do n't . |
| 25 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 26 | A research team at Birmingham University asked women to look at magazine pictures of catwalk beauties and then asked them to guess how wide the models were . |
| 27 | ‘ Program them to self-destruct whenever they miss a target . |
| 28 | Or you can ask them to find how many words begin with a particular group of letters : chro- ; mini ; gn- . |
| 29 | In the late Seventies the Ashleys were travelling around so much and had so many different houses that it was hard for them to know where home was . |
| 30 | You simply could not expect them to know how to fight properly . |