Example sentences of "i [verb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on it today , however , I perceive how dated it is ; but , in the 1930s it might just have excited interest , simply as illustrating one direction in which a Marxian might , in his disillusionment , turn . |
| 2 | Nothing happened for half an hour so I asked where the nearest Young Women 's Christian Association hostel was . |
| 3 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And finally I asked where the object was . |
| 6 | I asked where her suitcase was and she said , under the bed , where else ? |
| 7 | I asked where the blood tests were done — of course , I already knew — she told me . |
| 8 | I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them . |
| 9 | I asked why ? |
| 10 | When I asked why this was so she explained that since her husband died she had been managing well and felt that she had coped with all the trauma . |
| 11 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 12 | I asked why ? |
| 13 | When I asked why , she tried to tell me as gently as she could , but I did n't understand — ‘ Your Pop comes into our room at night . ’ |
| 14 | I asked why and she gave me a reply I had n't expected . |
| 15 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ No , no , we are not brave , we are very frightened ’ , was the inevitable response when I asked why they always fled . |
| 17 | I asked why not ? |
| 18 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 19 | Of course , I began to suspect — it was terrible and at last I asked why my father did n't write to me . |
| 20 | And I asked why would n't you break a window and you said noise . |
| 21 | ‘ I asked why Sir John Santerre had such close links with Glastonbury ? ’ |
| 22 | I asked why he could n't just plead guilty . |
| 23 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 24 | He appeared to be completely at sea again when I asked why primary schools in Scotland were excluded from the Bill , and did not seem to know that Scottish primary schools had been excluded . |
| 25 | ‘ I asked why you want to know . ’ |
| 26 | When we reached the new target and found gaps in the cloud and bombed , my second pilot just remarked that he was glad we did not bomb Mannheim , and I asked why . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked why you had to be going . ’ |
| 28 | Juror : ‘ I 've had some drink and that 's why I asked when is it dinner time . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Frederick , I asked when is the material going to be ready ? ’ |
| 30 | My full interview seemed to go reasonably smoothly so at the end of it I asked how long would it take for my money to come through . |