Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [Wh adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 2 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 3 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
| 4 | No , and I did n't do that until I read someone Niall 's and he had repeated flowers and I thought why has he repeated flowers and realised that in fact that it is necessary . |
| 5 | And they used to buy me new material to encourage me and I learnt how to sew from that . |
| 6 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
| 7 | I could learn procedures and facts for a short time and I knew how to regurgitate them for examinations . |
| 8 | Though I say it myself , your mother and I knew how to throw a party . |
| 9 | ‘ I got too technical , ’ he said , ‘ and I forgot how to score . |
| 10 | For instance , we did n't have yardage books when I started , and I learned how to use them . |
| 11 | If I knew how to make copies of myself , I 'm not sure that I would give the project high priority in competition with all the other things I want to do : why should I ? |
| 12 | But I meant how did you get word down to Blair Gowrie ? |
| 13 | but I said why come home and miss a season like that in the middle of August ? |
| 14 | But I wondered how to arrange things so that Émile Chaillot told him . |
| 15 | ‘ So I 'm more of a fucking man because I learned how to kill people , and did ? ’ |
| 16 | as she always does , since I said why send money to Great Ormond Street when there was plenty of children locally ? |
| 17 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 18 | When I said why did n't 'e go an' get it back 'isself , 'e said do n't ask questions . |