Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
2 | Idly I wondered why he insisted on them being cooked sunny side up . |
3 | a really strong ruler who can tell me what to do so I know where I stand and so on . |
4 | So I know whereof I speak . |
5 | Later I see where it has crashed . |
6 | ‘ OK , now I know where I stand — absolutely nowhere ! ’ |
7 | So now I know why they tell you fill this as you go along cos you forget what |
8 | I was puzzled at first but now I know why they do it , why they stretch their throats like that . |
9 | Now I know why he whacked me , I would whack me too . |
10 | ‘ Now I know why you asked me to come with you , ’ Robbie complained a little later , as she struggled back along the towpath with her share of the load . |
11 | ‘ Now I know why you wear those glasses . ’ |
12 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
13 | Now I wonder where you got that expression from ? |
14 | Now I understand why they paid Macaulay Culkin $3 million — he earned it . |
15 | Now I understand why he wants to kill Sir Henry . |
16 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |
17 | And asked why , well I know why she did n't turn into the morning lectures well I do n't get up usually , till half eleven , twelve o'clock . |
18 | He knows all about them kind of things , I do n't well I knew where they come |
19 | Well I wonder where he gets that from ? |
20 | Well I understand where you got that |
21 | Then I heard how he lived hand to mouth in the Bronx , lobbying whom he could at the talking-shop . |
22 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
23 | ‘ Sometimes I wonder how he passed his 0-levels , ’ Daddy said as we crawled over the cobbles and out of the village . |
24 | Q. Why A. Sometimes I think where I walk is India . |
25 | Okay , he 's a I think , then again , sometimes I think why she left him is because the way his , his house is , you see . |
26 | I had got one souvenir and if not identifiable with the shed , at least I knew where it had come from . |
27 | At least I know where I 've been . ’ |
28 | is that how I understand how it worked |
29 | There were many times when I wondered why I had agreed to research and write this book — it was anything but straightforward — more like doing a jig-saw puzzle without seeing the picture . |
30 | I do n't know why I mean why I like Polo . |