Example sentences of "i [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 2 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked why you had to be going . ’ |
| 4 | I asked how it happened . |
| 5 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 6 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 7 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 8 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 10 | Missed that and er oh I forget where she went to . |
| 11 | I forget how we learnt that he was coming under its auspices , but I do remember that our wish — that is to say , the wish of myself and Michael Cullis , by then an established friend — to entertain him during the visit , produced a minor clash with the English Club secretariat . |
| 12 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 13 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I noticed how he had slipped his feet under the exposed roots of trees — themselves held in the grasp of the hollow . |
| 16 | he said alright , I , I , I was in trouble because I forgot where I hid them . |
| 17 | I forgot where she lived red light murders |
| 18 | I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story . |
| 19 | I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow . |
| 20 | ‘ I recall how I refused to hearken to the queen my mother 's fears for my brother 's safety — yet now I myself fear greatly for him ! ’ |
| 21 | I have seen my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford being poisonous or venomous , but neither poison nor venom did I detect when he raised a fair , sensible and extremely important matter that needs to be debated frankly and fully on the Floor of the House without the sort of ignorant , absurd and childish platitudes that we have so recently heard . |
| 22 | I know where you watched it , I 'm asking you when you watched it . |
| 23 | And er he and I know where he worked at Brass Foundry on Road , and he fell ill . |
| 24 | with other states , and then across state activity , I know where I got , the girl right at the back was n't it ? |
| 25 | Yeah I , no I know , I know where I got it . |
| 26 | ‘ I know where I went wrong , ’ I thought . |
| 27 | Yeah , I know where I went wrong there . |
| 28 | I know where I saw it before ! |
| 29 | in er , we had a cutting somewhere Marie , oh I know when we became a limited company , er that 's right and er we put in erm formally erm er take over the business |
| 30 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |