Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People live in tents , and customs are so different from what they have been used to , that I really wonder how they reconcile themselves to their new mode of life . |
| 2 | And I just wondered how you try and tackle this problem |
| 3 | Er , and I just wonder why we 're trying to re-invent the wheel sometimes at these things . |
| 4 | I was very interested to read this quote from David Lock , erm of David Lock associates , and I just wonder how it squares from the fact that er Mr Lock associates submitted an objection to H two on the grounds they wanted a settlement of eighteen hundred dwellings to the North of York . |
| 5 | And I also wonder why you 're doing it . |
| 6 | You see art that 's created by people who are killing themselves making it , and I always wonder how it would turn out if they were n't doing that . |
| 7 | If I just knew where he was prepared to stand and then could just sort of do the things round about . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , ’ I lied and cursed to myself for not remembering to put a pencil behind my ear like I normally do when I use the phone . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd wanted to see it of course , but I also wondered why he was so desperate to get here . |
| 10 | Yes , I appreciate that , but I just wondered why we were discussing that here now , when we were turned down . |
| 11 | But I always knew where he was . |
| 12 | But I certainly know how it feels to be called to a distant office where your bosses have been tracking your movements through your ‘ own ’ computer . |
| 13 | He said erm I ca , I ca n't make arrangements much in advance because I never know how I 'm feeling . |
| 14 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 15 | We got chatting , he seemed intrigued by my descriptions of the carvings , and before I quite knew where I was he 'd accompanied me back here , appropriated a few of them , and disappeared . |