Example sentences of "i [vb past] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked where I should send the woman I was told to contact the neurosurgical bed manager , who would tell me which ward to send her to . |
| 2 | I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them . |
| 3 | ‘ No , no , we are not brave , we are very frightened ’ , was the inevitable response when I asked why they always fled . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I asked why he could n't just plead guilty . |
| 6 | ‘ I asked why you want to know . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I asked why you had to be going . ’ |
| 8 | I asked how we were going to wake up because I for one did n't have an alarm clock on me , and he said , ‘ Always wake up when I want . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , thank you , ’ Dorothy would say when I asked how they were keeping . |
| 10 | I asked how it happened . |
| 11 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And , if you recall , I asked how she could be so sure . |
| 16 | Afterwards , too late , I realized how I should have used my twenty-two seconds . |
| 17 | I realised why I was wrong about good theatre , about how it can enthrall in a way cinema and television rarely does . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Not since I realised how it was reared , think of shutting out the daylight all their lives . ’ |
| 20 | And they did , because they were all drunk as well , and that 's how I got where I am today . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | In Chapter Five I described how we disguise our motives in conversation through using sub-text . |
| 23 | And I learnt how we could organize to improve our conditions through sharing as a community . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I noticed how he had slipped his feet under the exposed roots of trees — themselves held in the grasp of the hollow . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman mentioned the first ; in my original answer , I showed how we intend to work towards it . |
| 27 | And then the tables faded away , and the music shook me , and I forgot where I was in the joy of raising my voice above the talk and the traffic and the whole street and high over the awning into the sky , with nothing but strummed chords on the guitar for company . |
| 28 | he said alright , I , I , I was in trouble because I forgot where I hid them . |
| 29 | I forgot where she lived red light murders |
| 30 | I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story . |