Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except I want to know where they from . |
| 2 | I am the first to admit that it is not easy , although I do wonder why we in tennis still use that argument as an excuse for not seeing what the Americans call ‘ minority ’ players more prominent in the British game . |
| 3 | That photograph that I 've got where it 's all snowy 's his house and we lived just opposite . |
| 4 | ‘ I care about your good opinion of me , so I want to explain why I went to Bath that night . |
| 5 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 6 | Hereward 's own background needs clarifying in case there are other people who wanted him dead.Dersingham , and by extension Vanessa , might have a motive , so I need to know where he 's got to in his search for a putative heir . |
| 7 | I 've been there , do n't forget , and I 've seen how you are looked up to . |
| 8 | I 've been watching him these past few weeks — spying on him , you might say — and I 've seen how he surrounds himself with cronies . |
| 9 | All of this has made me understand that it is time for change , and I want to explain how I believe I can continue to serve Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ And I want to know why you cried , please . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Two men , a green BMW , loading up at the back of the house , please do n't fuck me around , ’ Culley said , ‘ because I 'm becoming angry , and I want to know where they 've gone . ’ |
| 12 | I look at it and I want to know where it comes from . |
| 13 | And the danger presumably is that the surpluses we were having our discussion and debate about earlier on , those surpluses that and I do understand why you feel the pensioners should benefit from their surplus , but it the reality is that the employers and possibly the pensioners are currently arguing amongst themselves for the benefit of those surpluses , but in fact one of the significant contributors is often the deferred pensioners |
| 14 | ‘ And I do understand how you feel about the rest , about the emigration . |
| 15 | ‘ But I do know when I 'm being railroaded . |
| 16 | But I do know where I was when I fell — in the belt of grass under the bank , and facing straight ahead the way I was walking . |
| 17 | All that remains to be said is incised on stone , and the living go around silently with long faces and glances that mean ‘ I ca n't tell you how sorry I am , but I do know how you feel . ’ |
| 18 | Then quickly turning back to her , she said , ‘ But I do know how he feels about you . |
| 19 | I was n't actually born in Thorn House , it was n't a maternity home that long ago — ’ she gave a wry smile ‘ — but I do remember when it opened , some time in the Forties , just after the war , when mothers started having their babies away from home . |
| 20 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 21 | But I fail to see how we can talk about the ‘ redeeming of structures ’ without an effective Christian presence . |
| 22 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
| 23 | ‘ Though I fail to see why you had to break the door down . ’ |