Example sentences of "i [verb] [Wh adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Tell Wally to keep his eyes open and let me know when they pass him , ’ Hitch instructed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When d' you meet any real people apart from those limousine sharks and cordless telephone freaks who never met an ordinary person , do n't know any ordinary people : how they live , we live , nor how we die , I mean how they die . ’ |
| 5 | I watch how they smooth their hair when enter a room . |
| 6 | Cos er , I , I used to say to them I know where they 've eat up or not , I do , and we 've got them . |
| 7 | I will let you into a secret , I know where they get them from , or got three of them anyway . |
| 8 | So now I know why they tell you fill this as you go along cos you forget what |
| 9 | I was puzzled at first but now I know why they do it , why they stretch their throats like that . |
| 10 | She says , as an adult , looking back , I know why they did n't want me . |
| 11 | I know why they tried to kill you . |
| 12 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 13 | I know how they did that as well . |
| 14 | I know how they talk , out in the provinces , with that mixture of fake self-confidence and real fear : ‘ Go to Pradier 's , my boy , you 'll always find some little actress there to be your mistress , and grateful she 'll be too . |
| 15 | I know how they feel . |
| 16 | Gray said : ‘ I know how they feel , particularly after two great championship seasons . |
| 17 | Cos I 'm a bit worried we got ta get things sorted out so I rang I said I did n't to get onto you , she said no I know how they feel she said her granddad always do things like that . |
| 18 | And it 's er bi bigger now than when it was befo I mean , before it was all I remember when they stuck a pool table in there and it was bloody dreadful ! |
| 19 | Mi you know the really old Russian ones , when they I remember when they shot the rockets up and then the bits of them just get left behind in space . |
| 20 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 21 | I remember when they use , they did n't use to be a medium small and large |
| 22 | I clearly understood why when I heard how they confirmed his view of the economy in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Now I understand why they paid Macaulay Culkin $3 million — he earned it . |
| 24 | When it comes to the turn of the honey makers I ask how they make honey . |
| 25 | He knows all about them kind of things , I do n't well I knew where they come |
| 26 | ‘ I wonder why they got you . |
| 27 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
| 28 | ‘ I wonder why they left all this ? ’ he said . |
| 29 | I wonder why they put that car down there tonight ? |
| 30 | I wonder why they stopped ? |