Example sentences of "[verb] know [adv] i " in BNC.
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1 | Some called for myself , demanding to know why I was not present . ’ |
2 | So , before you start demanding to know why I lied , perhaps you 'd like to tell me why you lied . ’ |
3 | " Do n't you want to know why I did ? " |
4 | Do you want to know why I 'm wearing two pairs of knickers because |
5 | ‘ Do you want to know where I went ? ’ |
6 | After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all . |
7 | ‘ Well , do you want to know how I really caught it ? ’ |
8 | Horror writer Stephen King on the secret of his success : ‘ People want to know why I write such gross stuff . |
9 | ‘ Yet now , all of a sudden , you want to know why I think it 's so important . |
10 | As Maxine Waters , the US congresswoman for South Central put it , in a sermon in the First American Methodist Episcopal Church last Sunday , ‘ People want to know why I 'm not saying exactly what they want me to say . |
11 | They want to know why I 'm drinking Diet Coke . |
12 | I want to know why I 'm being victimised against . " |
13 | ‘ You and Daddy always want to know where I 'm going , what I 'm doing , who I 'm with . |
14 | ‘ My parents have been pestered by people who want to know when I am coming home , ’ she said . |
15 | But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife . |
16 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
17 | If you want to know how I could tell that from the seventh floor , you have to remember I 'm supposed to be a detective . |
18 | If you want to know how I , and , incidentally , Joanna , are so sure that you and Robert love each other … well , it 's in your eyes when you talk to him , in the way he tenses up when he sees you — there 's a magnetism between you that is almost visible . ’ |
19 | I did not say where ( was and , also , I did not need to know where I was . |
20 | ‘ What I mean to say , ’ replied Robert , ‘ is that I feel I need to know where I stand . ’ |
21 | Oh well if he wants to know why I 'm there and me are you off sick I shall just show him a I 've got proof that I 've been off sick . |
22 | ‘ She wants to know when I 'm going back . ’ |
23 | It 's such a bore the way she always wants to know where I am and what I 'm doing . ’ |
24 | He wants to know how I discovered the Old Rectory . |
25 | I would like to know where I gained and lost marks |
26 | ‘ I 'd just like to know why I 'm here , ’ Scott murmured . |
27 | GUIL : I like to know where I am . |
28 | It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands . |
29 | I like to know where I stand . ’ |
30 | ‘ Do you happen to know where I could find him now ? ’ |