Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggie made no reply to this , and the child remained quiet until it was evident that she recognized the entrance to the area , for she exclaimed , ‘ Oh ! now I know where we are . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't really know where I , or I know where I 'm going but I have to take the troops with me I had er , I got you see what is parts of a I A P compact certificate it might in fact , if the boss would let me do , if I could do an industry in December right ? |
| 3 | Believe me , it wo n't happen — although I understand why you think it might . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 6 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 7 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 8 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 9 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 11 | In fact , I 'd become so accustomed to relying on her that I wondered how I would . |
| 12 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 13 | ‘ Any more than I understand why it 's so important for you to find Garry . |
| 14 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 15 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 17 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 18 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |
| 19 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 20 | And I remember when I was a nipper , er er being up there and they had , they always had a box in the back of their caravan where they kept two or three hens , and , and , and er they used to have this game bird . |
| 21 | I was n't always a successful businessman and I remember where I come from . ’ |
| 22 | Whenever I get depressed I get gigs and I remember why I 'm a musician . |
| 23 | ‘ Whenever I get depressed I get gigs and I remember why I 'm a musician . ’ |
| 24 | I first met ‘ Steve ’ Brodie on a visit to Toronto when we were both sitting in on a broadcast featuring Percy Faith and his orchestra , and I remember how we both were enthralled by Percy 's arrangement of ‘ Beyond the Blue Horizon ’ . |
| 25 | And I like how they 're always half dressed . |
| 26 | ‘ It was a photograph of Mark and I heard how he 'd qualified as a chiropractor and set up in Falmouth where it 's uphill work . |
| 27 | I know that you want me , and I know why you would marry me . |
| 28 | " but I know what 's going on , and I know why I 'm here and why you 're here . |
| 29 | And er he and I know where he worked at Brass Foundry on Road , and he fell ill . |
| 30 | Er , because of them , I have a sense of purpose and I know where I 'm going . |