Example sentences of "i [to-vb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These measurements were vital to Jack Mason who relied upon me to confirm where he should hit his shots and how hard . |
| 2 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |
| 3 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 4 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 5 | The next day Errol called me to see how I was . |
| 6 | This practical demonstration of working positively with conflict gives me confidence in your work and helps me to see how I can listen better to others . |
| 7 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 8 | But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be . |
| 9 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 10 | I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job . |
| 11 | Oh it does hurt me to see how much the girls have spent on Christmas wrapping paper |
| 12 | ( It had surprised me to find how fussy he was about some things ; dust , and scrappy meals really bothered him . ) |
| 13 | We certainly know each other very well — well enough for me to know when he 's feeling himself and when he is not . |
| 14 | ‘ They 'll be pestering me to know when they can see you again … ’ |
| 15 | You dump it in there and then you suddenly expect me to know where it all is and I do n't . |
| 16 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 17 | It prompts me to wonder why secondary school organisation ( not conspicuously successful ) should be moved into our primary schools . |
| 18 | These were the first examples my research threw up , which leads me to wonder why the letter H hunts in packs . |
| 19 | He went on to said he wanted to talk about the hunting debate , erm , it occurred to me to wonder why they could n't find anyone in Stonygate in favour of hunting , I mean perhaps there are n't any people in Stonygate in favour of hunting . |
| 20 | It 's just necessary for me to express how very precious she was to me . |
| 21 | It was foolish of me to forget how news spreads in a village . ’ |
| 22 | Not for the likes of you and me to question why . ’ |
| 23 | In my analysis of the social and intellectual divisions at the party , it had never occurred to me to question where I stood myself . |
| 24 | To see them within their realm , led me to understand why divers go on and on about fish and viz. And the viz was good . |
| 25 | ‘ It is beyond me to understand why you would turn down what I offer when it 's what you want . ’ |
| 26 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
| 27 | It took about three months for me to realise how she did it . |
| 28 | The shock of it surprised the dog , when then bit the farmer ( modestly forbids me to mention where , but do give it some thought ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Your friends asked me to measure how far you have come . |
| 30 | The next step was for me to learn how to play the new solo and then record a rough version of it , to double check that we all liked it . |