Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arguments against innateness have their complement , not in Book 2 , but in Book 4 , where he explains how we come to have knowledge by reasoning about our ideas . |
| 2 | Believe me , it wo n't happen — although I understand why you think it might . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 4 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 5 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 9 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 10 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 11 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 12 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 13 | I tell yer , Joe , I ai n't too partial to that cove , and nor ai n't I 'appy that 'e knows where I live . |
| 14 | Although she understood why he wanted her to bend the truth , it still went against the grain . |
| 15 | It was n't that she cared how she looked , she told herself . |
| 16 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 17 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 18 | She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them . |
| 19 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 20 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |
| 21 | The most important factor in ‘ free stretching ’ is that you know when it hurts and how far you can go , making it possible for you to immediately release the stretch should you need to . |
| 22 | In the concluding part of this chapter we want to pass rough , but clear , judgement on these matters so that you know where we stand . |
| 23 | she 's just giving , she 's just give me an adult education centre there at Spinny Hill , Northampton and she said they put everything in perspective for you so that you know where you 've got to start , what is available to you and then she said if you go down the job centre and ask them if E T , education , employment training |
| 24 | When you offer a piece of information , you do n't commit yourself in quite the same way that you do when you propose or suggest an idea . |
| 25 | So without knowing any more than you knew when you sat the exam , you could pick up an extra three marks there . |
| 26 | Oh , I suppose you 've been in love , probably several times , so you know how it feels to hold someone , and perhaps what I 'm feeling is what anybody feels when their life is startled and transformed . |
| 27 | You carry on learning , and somewhere somebody knows the answer to it so you learn how they go the answer to it , and then perhaps later on you have a chance to have an opinion in science . |
| 28 | We recommend contacting Cedok once you know where you want to go as they can arrange package holidays as well as provide a great deal of information for the independent traveller . |
| 29 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 30 | No , but it means , it means that we know how we 've got to gear up |