Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 2 | In the end I asked myself why I should be trapped in there while they walked about freely . |
| 3 | I asked them where they were going . |
| 4 | So they agreed to let me play and I asked them where they wanted me . |
| 5 | Needless to say this churned up all the water and when I asked him politely what he was doing — he ignored me ! |
| 6 | I asked him where he was goin' to get the pennies from , and he said he 'd nick them from the superintendent 's gas money . |
| 7 | I asked him where he would like to go . |
| 8 | But when I asked him where he had been all he said was , ‘ Go back to sleep . ’ |
| 9 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 10 | I asked him why he had decided to marry me . |
| 11 | I asked him why he 'd lost his own teeth and he said the cause had been pyorrhea . |
| 12 | I was a fool ; I ought to have let it go at that , but I asked him why he did n't approve — and had a regular tirade ! |
| 13 | Several months ago at a party I asked him why he had n't written a book about his years in the Himalaya . |
| 14 | Interviewing Giorgio Moroder earlier this year , I asked him why he and his co-producer , Pete Bellotte , had decided to extend ‘ Love To Love You Baby ’ into a 17-minute orgasmic epic . |
| 15 | I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends . |
| 16 | I asked him why he had to explore it on me . |
| 17 | I asked him why he did once and he said it was a more beautiful name . |
| 18 | I asked him why he bothered to help . |
| 19 | When I asked him why he said it would spoil the looks of his bicycle to have them fitted now . |
| 20 | ‘ Mummy , I 'm sorry , but I asked him why he hated me so much … anyway , I do n't mind — I 'm happy he 's not my father ! ’ |
| 21 | I asked him why he hit a 3-wood off the tee and he said he had to ; when he hits a driver he has absolutely no idea where the ball will go ! " |
| 22 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |
| 23 | But once I asked him why he was in prison , and he muttered about his days at Le Coq d'Or tavern in Paris and said he was a prisoner because he could ‘ count the days ’ . ’ |
| 24 | When I asked him why he wanted me to do that , he said it was because he was in love with you . ’ |
| 25 | As he 'd spent most of the day campaigning in an area where thousands of jobs have been lost in the defence industry , I asked him why he should n't expect to lose votes on that issue . |
| 26 | ‘ I asked him specifically what women should do after being sexually attacked , especially raped , ’ she says . |
| 27 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 28 | I asked him how he would prefer to be addressed and he said you can call him what you please , as long as it is polite . |
| 29 | I asked him how he read the lessons of the Franks Report : |
| 30 | I asked him how he coped with the summer traffic on the twisting single track roads . |