Example sentences of "[vb infin] [coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although on every side people tried to raise the old Watergate question , ‘ What did the President know and when did he know it ? ’ , it seemed curiously flabby and unsatisfactory ; as Elizabeth Drew wrote in the New Yorker , ‘ When one talks about what Reagan ‘ knew ’ , one could be dealing in metaphysics . ’ |
| 2 | He would probably land and then tell them to walk back . |
| 3 | How do you do and how do you do and how do you do again ! |
| 4 | How do you do and how do you do and how do you do again ! |
| 5 | When do prepayments arise and how do they differ from accruals ? |
| 6 | All invite two questions : why do animals migrate and how do they know the way ? |
| 7 | Who does it affect and how does it affect them ? |
| 8 | Who do you approach and how do you approach them ? |
| 9 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 10 | What function do they serve and how do they help the zebra to survive ? |
| 11 | How then do matters rest and where do we go from here ? |
| 12 | ‘ This last Friday , when did he arrive and when did he leave ? ’ |
| 13 | No , what we 'll do is go and actually get you booked in . |
| 14 | If you have to make a selection decision , for example , what information do you require and how do you research it ? |
| 15 | ‘ When did he come and when did he leave ? ’ |
| 16 | What do you get and where do you get it ? |
| 17 | When did you start and when did you finish ? |
| 18 | Where did it start and where did it end ? |
| 19 | A brief comparison of British and American assemblies demonstrates the importance of the question : who or what do representatives represent and how do they set about it ? |
| 20 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
| 21 | They ask you for every kind of documentation you can imagine and then treat you like some kind of being that is half-human , half-dog , who does n't have any private life of her own . |