Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the type of relationships you have may affect how you view safer sex . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's think how they worked that one . ’ |
| 3 | In other words Africa may have remained close to the region of major sub-lithospheric heating which preceded the breakup of Pangaea and this may explain why it has a high mean elevation today in spite of lacking significant orogenic belts . |
| 4 | Chantal flashed D'Arcy a reproving glance , but Roquelaure continued as though he had not heard : ‘ We must think where it leaves the French Government , Rober' . |
| 5 | Now I should explain why I believe that Cornwall is a special case and why so many local people argued in these terms . |
| 6 | ‘ First of all , I should explain why you heard no more from me after you came to see Iritnefert 's body . |
| 7 | ‘ I must explain how I 've managed to accumulate all this new stuff . |
| 8 | The officer or warden should describe how he gave the necessary signal , e.g. ‘ I raised my right arm with the palm of my hand facing the defendant . |
| 9 | As soon as she was seated , she said in a voice that was hard and tense , ‘ You must know why I 've come . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You must know why I have come , Neil , ’ she said , and she held out her arms to him . |
| 11 | ‘ You must know where you put the stuff ! |
| 12 | This means you must know how you want to organise your documents . |
| 13 | Emma , you 're not grown-up but you 're not a baby , except in my mind , so you must know how I feel about you , always have . |
| 14 | ‘ Sophie — you must know how I feel about you . |
| 15 | Of course , if schoolchildren are to use the library effectively they must know how it operates , how it is administered and how it is organized , but these arc only the preliminaries . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's bad enough losing the dog — you must know how it affects a vet — but to be accused of practically killing it out of spite … ’ |
| 17 | Some women do resist the pressure to loathe fat , and we should consider why they refuse to collude with widely accepted definitions of sexual attractiveness . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish instead that you should know where you belong . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew you were n't going to believe me , but it seemed only fair that you should know why I agreed to marry you . ’ |
| 20 | You should discuss why you have come to your particular conclusions about its form of organisation . |
| 21 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 22 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I just think you should remember how he feels . |
| 24 | But the chemists must also be aware of the limitations of the precision with which certain concepts can be defined and he must understand how they arise ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ You must think we 're all very wicked sometimes , Mr Devlin , but you must understand how it started . |
| 26 | Before a function can be managed , one must understand how it works and Fig. 17 suggests how the exhibition communication process works . |
| 27 | Her reflection shewed exactly what she imagined Timothy must see when he looked at her . |
| 28 | But he had let his arrow fly , now he must see where it fell . |
| 29 | But before you finally make up your mind , you must decide where you stand in the ‘ follow the flag ’ controversy.2 I personally gave that one up decades ago . |
| 30 | And first I must say why I need to make this digression . |