Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a photograph of Mark and I heard how he 'd qualified as a chiropractor and set up in Falmouth where it 's uphill work . |
| 7 | And er he and I know where he worked at Brass Foundry on Road , and he fell ill . |
| 8 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 9 | Only you and I know how I survived . |
| 10 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 11 | Clearly those calves had drained him and I knew how he felt . |
| 12 | ‘ You look well , Lili , ’ he remarked , also without warmth , and I wondered why they had ever been friends since they did n't like each other . |
| 13 | And I wondered how he deduced you know , how he got this . |
| 14 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 15 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |
| 16 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 17 | ‘ If I knew how I meant I should n't be asking you to design it , because that 's what design is , knowing how you mean . |
| 18 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 19 | on the grounds that until I knew where I 'd got |
| 20 | Oh this is this is you here is it ? the other side of the , cos I know when we tried to take photo 's off John , tried to take photo 's of John on the television because he could n't do it with all the flash or . |
| 21 | Cos I know when I went to the warehouse |
| 22 | Cos I remember when you did twenty seven . |
| 23 | But I remember when you said that that last year |
| 24 | I did n't , but I remember when you said that , that last year when I counted up |
| 25 | But I know when we went in Co-op the other day , last week were it there was a load |
| 26 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 27 | In my professional work , I repeatedly have conversations with educated clients — especially male clients — which go something like this : " Yes , yes — you 've told me what you think , and what you did , but I wonder how you felt ? " |
| 28 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 29 | I knew there were no flies on her but I wondered how she 'd found that out . |
| 30 | You should n't have doubted the depth of my love for you but I understand why you felt so insecure . |