Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except I want to know where they from . |
| 2 | I am the first to admit that it is not easy , although I do wonder why we in tennis still use that argument as an excuse for not seeing what the Americans call ‘ minority ’ players more prominent in the British game . |
| 3 | That photograph that I 've got where it 's all snowy 's his house and we lived just opposite . |
| 4 | It was then that I began to understand how archaeologists could be led into serious error if they decided in advance what they were going to find . |
| 5 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 6 | It was only after she had gone that I started to ponder why she had confided so much in me . |
| 7 | But the main reason was that I wanted to explain how far I felt we had come in our understanding of the universe : how we might be near finding a complete theory that would describe the universe and everything in it . |
| 8 | But I am afraid it would require a deeper understanding of the chemistry of proteins than I possess to explain how the energy of the ATP is harnessed to the active transport of salts and other substances . |
| 9 | I just heard that Katie here was in so I came to see when she 'd be back on duty , that 's all . |
| 10 | ‘ I care about your good opinion of me , so I want to explain why I went to Bath that night . |
| 11 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 12 | ‘ So I want to know how the investigation is getting on . |
| 13 | You were going to walk past us , and you have not been back to see us , so I have forgotten how to sing . ’ |
| 14 | Hereward 's own background needs clarifying in case there are other people who wanted him dead.Dersingham , and by extension Vanessa , might have a motive , so I need to know where he 's got to in his search for a putative heir . |
| 15 | Forty minutes later my neck was long , my hips were free , my knees were out , my back was wide and I 'd learned how to sit down . |
| 16 | When we were flying over Holland I did steel myself to look out and I remember seeing where miles of land had been submerged under sea water to keep the Germans out , and houses , trees and roads were still under water . |
| 17 | I 've been there , do n't forget , and I 've seen how you are looked up to . |
| 18 | MY SON is a teacher and I 've seen how hard he has worked to make the new national curriculum a success in his classroom . |
| 19 | I 've been watching him these past few weeks — spying on him , you might say — and I 've seen how he surrounds himself with cronies . |
| 20 | And it was rough going , and I had to watch my head and I had to watch where I was putting my feet . |
| 21 | It feels as though my whole world is collapsing about my ears — and I intend to know why ! ’ |
| 22 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 23 | But he had n't given it , and I began to wonder why he had n't . |
| 24 | I was now very weak from lack of food , and I began to wonder why I should struggle to stay alive , when I did not want to live . |
| 25 | It proved a nuisance to the horses , who were continually tripping over , and I began to see why communications ‘ up at the front ’ were so haphazard . |
| 26 | But as I sat with my legs dangling over the edge , looking out on to the quiet water meadow , the anarchy of Delhi seemed far away and I began to see why in all the most sensible cultures , Paradise was envisaged as a walled pleasure garden . |
| 27 | I was like a Lilliputian in Europe , and I began to understand how a very small creature feels . |
| 28 | And I fail to see why someone with such an inventive , lively mind as yours can be so dog-in-the-manger about updating things in the office . |
| 29 | All of this has made me understand that it is time for change , and I want to explain how I believe I can continue to serve Britain . |
| 30 | It 's like , I 've already been asked , and I 've refused , and I want to know why is it people put so much pressure on you to get married ? |