Example sentences of "be [conj] [Wh adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't care who these people are or why they want the letters , but when they phone tomorrow you 're going to agree to whatever they demand . |
| 2 | Then there was the element of fascination — I know practically nothing about him , nor what his business activities are or why he spends so much time in foreign countries . |
| 3 | I tried to remind myself who I am and how I play tennis . ’ |
| 4 | They told what an excellent trip it had been and how they had sat on a platform in the sunshine halfway across to eat their sandwiches with not another boat in sight . |
| 5 | Finally they told me where they had been and how they had been ushered into a sort of waiting room by the proprietress , who had endeavoured to make them feel at ease by offering them marrons glacés . |
| 6 | had been and how I had to go away |
| 7 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 8 | ith croquet you know where the croquet players are and where they live . |
| 9 | So it 's just the , give you the background to show how were linked , so that 's who we are and how we organize , is that clear , has anybody got any questions . |
| 10 | Or it might suggest that the religious symbols , by which men and women have conferred meaning on their lives , meet such pressing psychological needs that they remain impervious to scientific frames of meaning , which , in the last analysis , only dictate how things are and how they came to be so , without pretending to answer the why and the wherefore . |
| 11 | mail and it says about what a lovely family they are and how it 's got ta |
| 12 | Power that comes from who you are and how you represent yourself and behave towards others is highly contagious . |
| 13 | Who you are and how you behave will have a major effect on the men and women who live there . |
| 14 | Are there elements in your upbringing , or the character of your parents or others close to you from whom you have learned , which help to explain or cast light on who you are and how you behave and respond , given certain circumstances ? |
| 15 | Vasectomy does not change who you are and how you feel about sex , it only prevents pregnancies . |
| 16 | We now understand in a general way how strong any particular solid ought to be and why it falls short of that strength in practice . |
| 17 | Through events of different kinds we are likely to be put in touch with aspects of ourselves which previously have been overlooked — we are given a jolt , and have to make a bridge between how things used to be and how they threatened . |
| 18 | The photographs were printed in a series of features about celebrities ' wives and who they were and how they coped . |
| 19 | it 's telling people including the staff what the main issues were and how we fought through them . |
| 20 | When we were little children how eagerly we used to gather pieces of broken tile , little sticks , and mud with which to build houses and other tiny buildings , and if someone knocked them over , how heartbroken we were and how we cried ! |
| 21 | Hundreds of them are dumb , simple persons , caught in the web of law , unable to comprehend what has happened , what the charge against them is or why they have been sent to jail . |
| 22 | ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’ |
| 23 | But we ca n't give it back to 'im , can we , not knowing who 'e is or where 'e lives . ’ |
| 24 | D' you think I 'm well off , is that why I live in this flat , on this estate where no one talks to you because they 're afraid and people like you can come bursting in any hour of the day or night because the place is so badly built the locks do n't fit the doors anyway . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , is that why you thought it safe to come back to the parlour after your arduous work in the surgery ? ’ said McAllister dangerously , casting a sarcastic eye at the half-read novel in his hand . |
| 26 | ‘ And is that why you 've run off ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And is that why she 's gone to Ireland ? ’ |
| 28 | Was this engagement his ticket to respectability , and is that why he had accepted it ? |
| 29 | The paradox of diversion is that whenever we want to divert something it proves very hard to do so ; but when we do not want to create a diversion we very often end up by diverting more than we wanted . |
| 30 | Another thing that sticks in my gut big time is that whenever I mention I 'm a Leeds United fan , peoples first reaction is that ‘ Oh you were so lucky to win the league two years ago ’ . |