Example sentences of "i [vb past] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked why you had to be going . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I asked why you want to know . ’ |
| 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 | 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 ! |
| 11 | In Chapter Five I described how we disguise our motives in conversation through using sub-text . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I noticed how he had slipped his feet under the exposed roots of trees — themselves held in the grasp of the hollow . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman mentioned the first ; in my original answer , I showed how we intend to work towards it . |
| 15 | he said alright , I , I , I was in trouble because I forgot where I hid them . |
| 16 | I forgot where she lived red light murders |
| 17 | I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story . |
| 18 | I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow . |
| 19 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 20 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 21 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 22 | I clearly understood why when I heard how they confirmed his view of the economy in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Then I heard how he lived hand to mouth in the Bronx , lobbying whom he could at the talking-shop . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | I knew whenever I saw her , first time I was in the shop that I recognized her from somewhere . |
| 26 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 29 | He knows all about them kind of things , I do n't well I knew where they come |
| 30 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |