Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One young man I used to teach said to me : ‘ You do n't need to teach me when to applaud and when to shut up . |
| 2 | I said he 'd have to teach me how to do it . |
| 3 | If , at any point , I thought that his solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless — a prisoner or a caged bird — I was ashamed at once and re-doubled my efforts to be a good wife , asking Nonni to teach me how to cook the elaborate dishes Richard liked , and taking care to change my dress before he came home in the evening . |
| 4 | ‘ Listen , Private Nobody , do n't try to teach me how to suck eggs , let's get you to your porridge . ’ |
| 5 | What a fool , he 's trying to teach me how to suck eggs , thought Blackbeard . |
| 6 | You just wanted to teach me how to cope with this horrible bastard blue stuff that 's invading my head . ’ |
| 7 | Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I would like it fine for you to advise me how I am to repaint my ceilings , Doctor ! |
| 9 | I remembered the sort of questions Father used to ask me when I was reading a book he knew by heart , and greatly loved . |
| 10 | My dates used to ask me why I was always hanging out with faggots . ’ |
| 11 | Merton 's clothes on this show had by now reached previously unfathomed depths : shrunk , unironed Magic Roundabout T-shirts and lumberjack shirts without washing instructions ( on the one occasion Merton wore a smart suit , he stopped the show mid-way through and exclaimed : ‘ Is n't anyone going to ask me why I 'm looking so smart today ? ’ ) . |
| 12 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect you want to ask me how I began in the theatre , ’ Stella said . |
| 14 | Do you like to ask me how I feel ? |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm waiting for you to ask me how I am . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Are n't you going to ask me how I am ? ’ |
| 17 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 18 | It never ceases to amaze me how nature has endowed these tiny bodies with the instincts , the strength and endurance to undertake such fantastic journeys every year of their lives . |
| 19 | With the less-than-reliable weather we have been known to experience rom time to time during the course of a season — it never ceases to amaze me how we ever managed to invent a game like cricket in England — an artificial pitch can be extremely valuable in enabling play to take place when otherwise it might not have done . |
| 20 | It never ceases to amaze me how easily pleased they are . |
| 21 | It 'll be easy getting him to show me where he 's chucked my dreams . |
| 22 | I asked her to show me where she 'd seen it . |
| 23 | ‘ I may need you to show me where things are , ’ she turned to Jill , ‘ but the rest I can manage , even if I have to bluff my way through . ’ |
| 24 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 25 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 26 | He reads it only to show me how hard he is trying . |
| 27 | I could n't do that properly at first , but Mr Dowson came to show me how , telling me to pull a lot harder . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , he came to Trantridge once and tried to show me how wicked my life was . |
| 29 | " He was going to show me how to fold up a map properly . " |
| 30 | He wanted to show me how much he 'd got out of them . |