Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe me , it wo n't happen — although I understand why you think it might . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was n't always a successful businessman and I remember where I come from . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | And er he and I know where he worked at Brass Foundry on Road , and he fell ill . |
| 16 | And I have to sort it out , sit there , sort it out and then work out how much it 's gon na come to , and then I know then when I go to the shop I know what to get , and I know when it goes in the cupboard I know that I 'll have a meal for every day of the week . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Only you and I know how I survived . |
| 19 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 20 | Clearly those calves had drained him and I knew how he felt . |
| 21 | But nonetheless — and for what it 's worth — this obsession with number seems to me sad , reductive and weird , and I wonder where it comes from ? |
| 22 | I enjoyed it and I understand how you feel . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | And I wondered how he deduced you know , how he got this . |
| 25 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 26 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |
| 27 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 30 | ‘ No news at all , ’ she warned , ‘ until I know how you 've been … and whether you are on the mend . ’ |