Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 7 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |
| 8 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 11 | ‘ No news at all , ’ she warned , ‘ until I know how you 've been … and whether you are on the mend . ’ |
| 12 | on the grounds that until I knew where I 'd got |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Cos I know when I went to the warehouse |
| 15 | I can just say that I 've clocked it , even though I can I just I ca n't clock it yeah I can just say I could cos I know how it end . |
| 16 | Cos I remember when you did twenty seven . |
| 17 | Because I know when I feel happy I feel quite well ’ , while a 74-year-old farmer 's widow stated ‘ I 've reached the stage now where I say is n't it lovely and good to be alive , seeing all the lovely leaves on the trees , it 's wonderful to be alive and to able to stand and stare ! ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I cried because I knew when I walked out on Ramsay Street , it would be a hundred times more difficult to see my friends , ’ she confessed . |
| 19 | he said alright , I , I , I was in trouble because I forgot where I hid them . |
| 20 | Because I wonder why you have n't made many musicals — you seem to have the personality and the looks for it . |
| 21 | I clearly understood why when I heard how they confirmed his view of the economy in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 23 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 24 | When I see how you treated woman |
| 25 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 26 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |
| 28 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 29 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 30 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |