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 .
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