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

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1 my daddy goes erm where will you be so I can in touch with you by phone laughing cos they were shouting at me and then he said to me and then I told him it was n't and he goes so why do you go
2 Well then when they start looking about a bit more , that is when it costs you because anything that Les has to get involved in , cos they go back to Les and say well why did he do this and why did you do that ?
3 Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know .
4 It lacks the personal touch it lacks the personal touch which is why you never send your people letters saying you 're fired or you know lost a job you always talk to them and it can be more expensive in terms of materials you use it 's it is very very expensive on mat materials and cheap on time but it 's a personal relationships that 's the first thing okay that 'll do so when do we use it ?
5 I says well where did you get the system from ?
6 and there you go , she says well how do you work that out ?
7 If we screen intelligently how do we satisfy their uncovered needs ?
8 Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ?
9 ‘ If it 's so isolated then where do we stay ? ’
10 Somebody might be sitting there saying well how does he know it 's er how does he know it 's we I ca n't see a word for we in there .
11 Do you cut well where do you cut your peats round here ?
12 Erm why do you think well why do you think I was telling you that ?
13 'Cause I said that before , and they go well why do you need to wait ?
14 I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference .
15 and I said well why did you pay them before they , the job had been done
16 But he said he thought it was an Irish fellow you know and I said well where does he live ?
17 That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman .
18 And I said well when did you last contact them ?
19 I was listening today to erm a man on the radio and he was only thirty four and he had a stroke and they were saying he , they er , they were asking him , they said well how did it happen ?
20 I said well how do you manage to keep the weight off ?
21 I said well how do you think
22 So he said well how do you feel about your business ?
23 you 've got ta think er think , it was like erm one of the guys was saying oh I 've got a real problem getting the names , I said well how do you ask and he said well look I 'm in the people business John but I do n't suppose you know anybody do you
24 You can just shout out any ideas you have so why do we need well trained people ?
25 And you may say well why do I have two pairs of fins , you know , one in front and one behind , instead of , say , three pairs of fins , or one pair of fins , or eight pairs of fins — why do we all have two ?
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