Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to disagree , or to see how she can overcome the problem . |
| 2 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 3 | Then she no longer knew or cared how he looked or what he might be feeling , and surrendered herself totally to the sensation of being in his arms . |
| 4 | When both parents are dead there is no one to talk with about those uncertain , early memories of people and places , or to confirm when it was we had measles , or where we stayed on holiday . |
| 5 | Or say where it hath birth |
| 6 | They confirmed that the death was being treated as suspicious but would not give the woman 's identity or say how she died . |
| 7 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |
| 8 | I do n't know what the landlord will say or do when 'e finds out , ’ she wailed . |
| 9 | There was no point in transforming Paris and making it easy of access for visitors if there was nothing to see or do when one got there , and so the Court was to be made open as well as brilliant . |
| 10 | The problem was she had no real idea of what she was going to say or do when she got to the château . |
| 11 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 12 | The baby who is picked up or fed whenever he cries soon becomes a veritable tyrant , and gives his mother no peace when awake ; while , on the other hand , the infant who is fed regularly , put to sleep , and played with at definite times soon finds that appeals bring no response , and so learns that most useful of all lessons , self-control , and the recognition of an authority other than his own wishes . |
| 13 | And if we do n't have kids we are either trying to have them or wondering why we 're not having them ( maybe we have n't settled down like all our friends : is something wrong with us ? ) . |
| 14 | He had , in fact , had a very pleasant breakfast with his father , eating a third bowl of cornflakes and toast , without for one moment feeling uncomfortable or wondering why his father should be so gently considerate and butter his toast for him . |
| 15 | I was wondering if you have , or know where I can get , an instruction book . |
| 16 | I can do that , probably a number of other people can do it too , but the vast majority would n't have the remotest idea what to listen for or know how it is done . |
| 17 | The new law did n't stress how children should learn to speak standard English — or state how they should be taught to read . |
| 18 | And I think if you start analysing it and trying to think back to how or why , or questioning why it happened , you start worrying about whether it 's going to happen again , and then it wo n't happen . |
| 19 | What we do n't see so often , however , is an attempt ( when the characteristic is recognized by management and leadership ) to correct it , or to understand why it exists and to try to set in train processes and plans to change these undesirable attributes . |
| 20 | They do not give the press or the universities or the churches the right to broadcast respectively the programmes on the news , education or religion , or to determine how they should be broadcast ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 9 ) . |
| 21 | Should we take the job in Paris and disrupt the family or stay where we are and continue to enjoy that community ? |
| 22 | Make her presence known , or stay where she was and run the risk of being thought an eavesdropper ? |
| 23 | He doubted if room 19 even existed ; nobody in his circle had ever seen it or knew where it was situated . |
| 24 | There are some very good science programs on TV , but others present scientific wonders simply as magic , without explaining them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas . |
| 25 | Self-sealing cartridges have built-in valves and can be fitted or removed whenever you want . |
| 26 | Feel vibration from your own voice through the vibrator ; do n't think about it or analyse how it happens — just let it happen . |
| 27 | It 's important that home owners are recognizing that there is an over- provision of residential care in the county , and that they are responding and diverting some of their resources , or discussing how they may well , er , divert some resources into home based er , packages of care . |
| 28 | For instance , it is easy to get talking about relationships to extremes , and to end up analyzing or discussing how you 're passing the marmalade to each other at breakfast ! |
| 29 | Mr Tancock , who operates from Mannington Park in Swindon , refused to say if anyone had ever received loans from North Star , or to say why he had set up Global Finance . |
| 30 | It can go on and on , soaking through boxes of tissues , seemingly having no end and making it quite impossible for the patient to speak or to say why he is crying . |