Example sentences of "i [verb] [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I asked where her suitcase was and she said , under the bed , where else ?
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’
5 ‘ No , no , we are not brave , we are very frightened ’ , was the inevitable response when I asked why they always fled .
6 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 .
7 Of course , I began to suspect — it was terrible and at last I asked why my father did n't write to me .
8 I asked why he could n't just plead guilty .
9 I asked why you want to know . ’
10 I asked why you had to be going . ’
11 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 .
12 ‘ All right , thank you , ’ Dorothy would say when I asked how they were keeping .
13 ‘ Two weeks after we were married , I asked how her pregnancy was going .
14 I asked how it happened .
15 I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner .
16 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 . ’
17 I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions .
18 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 .
19 And , if you recall , I asked how she could be so sure .
20 I mean whenever you see old films
21 And I mean whenever there was one in the flats , you could hear it probably throughout the whole complex .
22 No matter , what I mean why we all seem to wearing black , because they 're
23 I do n't know why I mean why I like Polo .
24 I mean why there should n't be cooking oil in in in landfill .
25 Er and on the basis of your knowledge I mean , in terms of the flats , when you 've s you 've been there f er and also you 've erm worked with some of the tenants that have been down here , I mean how what do you think er in terms of the living conditions , I mean how er in the flats , I mean how do they , how do you see them ?
26 I mean how what other evidence
27 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 . ’
28 Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness .
29 I mean how they ch the fact they choose to sub-contract out to me is one thing , yeah , I mean that 's their problem in that sense .
30 I mean how he even got to be a broker I never understood .
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