Example sentences of "but [Wh adv] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whereabouts do you hope to be at the end of twenty minutes , however long we 've got . |
| 2 | ‘ But how come you still get animal experiments if that 's the case ? |
| 3 | ‘ But how come you know that , bucko ? ’ |
| 4 | But how come you 've got a negative ? |
| 5 | ‘ But how did you come to go your separate ways ? ’ |
| 6 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 7 | But how did you know ? ’ |
| 8 | And I said to him , ‘ But how did you know an antelope was there ? ’ |
| 9 | But how did you pluck up the courage to tell the aunt ? ’ |
| 10 | She should have come over sooner , she should have spoken to Roy , but how did you ask a grown man about his home life ? |
| 11 | ‘ But how did you know about me ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I know I am , but how did you discover that ? |
| 13 | But how did you ever meet them ? |
| 14 | " But how did you come to be here ? " |
| 15 | I 'm not saying whether it 's right or wrong , but how did you get to it ? |
| 16 | But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ? |
| 17 | Her niece stared at her : " There were five fire-engines ; but how did you know ? " |
| 18 | But how did you get it into place ? |
| 19 | But how did you find me here ? ’ |
| 20 | But how did you know that ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But how did you get here ? ’ |
| 22 | But how did you do it yourself , and clear something deep in your chest ? |
| 23 | ‘ But how did you know about the snake , Holmes ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But how did you know I was here ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , but how did you — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But how did you get to be chairman ? |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but how did you know ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But how did you find out ? |
| 29 | when , when , when we went to meet Terry and Paul from the cinema , eh and she went , she went oh but how did you loose it in there ? , |
| 30 | But how did you get when it 's usually five ? |