Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 2 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact , I 'd become so accustomed to relying on her that I wondered how I would . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | And you kissed him ; and I thought how he could be with you whenever he wished . |
| 11 | And I learnt how we could organize to improve our conditions through sharing as a community . |
| 12 | We got along well because I was sympathetic to his cause , and I understood why he was so disturbed by the obvious discrimination by the white man . |
| 13 | Clearly those calves had drained him and I knew how he felt . |
| 14 | But I always knew you were fiercely independent and I knew how you 'd react to my eternal presence if you realised I was there as a self-appointed bodyguard . ’ |
| 15 | There was quite a crowd at the bank of the loch and I wondered why they were all there , whether they were genuinely concerned about you or perhaps that death had some awful attraction for them . |
| 16 | ‘ You look well , Lili , ’ he remarked , also without warmth , and I wondered why they had ever been friends since they did n't like each other . |
| 17 | And I wondered why she was still working . |
| 18 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
| 19 | We were almost there and I wondered how he would behave when he was face-to-face with Gómez , what he would say . |
| 20 | And I wondered how he deduced you know , how he got this . |
| 21 | And then the tables faded away , and the music shook me , and I forgot where I was in the joy of raising my voice above the talk and the traffic and the whole street and high over the awning into the sky , with nothing but strummed chords on the guitar for company . |
| 22 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 23 | The first time he ever asked me if I knew where he could get ‘ coke ’ . |
| 24 | If I knew where he was , perhaps I would still try to . |
| 25 | If I knew where he was I would n't have come . |
| 26 | ‘ If I knew where he was why would I come here ? ’ |
| 27 | If I knew where it was , do you think I 'd get blown up time after time . ’ |
| 28 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 29 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |
| 30 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |