Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [be] and " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She asked me how I was and when I would be moving in to the cottage . ’ |
2 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
3 | He wondered how she was and why she was n't writing . |
4 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
5 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
6 | and I went across to see how she was and he says I 'm expecting her home today , that were Thursday , so that was |
7 | And I er was talking to her down the lane when Mrs Monday and I asked her how she was and she said oh I 've had a few falls in the house and all . |
8 | That 's how you are and that 's how you have to start . |
9 | He asked how you were and said you were a very good horse-woman . " |
10 | we 'd pop in see how you were and |
11 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
12 | The interest of how things are resides in their figuration , discernible and expressible by the deeper realist , of how things will be only in so far as that futurity is the truth and the end of how they are and always have been . |
13 | in the ploughing matches you see the size and smooth , that 's how they were and that was , what this wooden plough did . |
14 | in work experience , then you know really how it is and what , but if you did n't wan na do it , then , oh god , be a lot of and like you decide |
15 | ‘ She also dashes about London trying to redress the sexual balance by finding out where a woman goes for paid sex , trying it and telling you how it was and how much . ’ |
16 | I told him how it was and he left , walking over to the hotel . |
17 | ‘ I know that Ella and Dimity — everyone in fact — will want to know how he is and would like to call , but they do n't wish to intrude at a time like this . |
18 | But the maddest thing , Anton , how he was and what was happening to him , he could not scream out the shame of it . |
19 | I confided nothing of my circumstances , merely asked Émile how he was and kept him telling me at length , without interrupting him . |
20 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
21 | The US Masters champion added : ‘ I always try to defend a title but I have sweated my guts out in America this year to get where I am and I feel I am entitled to play . |
22 | Now nobody 's going to come and see me , and Marie 's gone away and Annie do n't know where I am and they wo n't have Christmas with me and we wo n't open prezzies together . |
23 | It 's such a bore the way she always wants to know where I am and what I 'm doing . ’ |
24 | I lose track of where I am and all I know is that my baby is on the other side of the world . |
25 | But she could n't ever see me , though I think at first she knew I was around , so now I mostly stay where I am and amuse myself with some of the other kids who are here too . |
26 | It depends where I am and what I 'm doing . |
27 | ‘ As long as they know where I am and who with . ’ |
28 | Before acting out as a late Father Christmas , I want to erm , come up with some general , how shall I put it , general considerations , this is why you have slides , you realise that slides are not actually for your benefit , they 're for my benefit , that I can remember where I am and what I 'm supposed to do . |
29 | I became conscious of where I was and what I was doing so I quickly stood up and dried my eyes . |
30 | Naturally Richard had asked her where I was and when , realizing what she had done , she said I was at her flat , he had telephoned Jack and discovered this was untrue . |