Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front area of the house , including our bedroom , was dry , and how I wished I could lock myself in there and pretend the rest was n't happening . |
| 2 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , how I wish I could go home and find him there ! ’ thought Penny , as she hurried along the footpath that led to her house . |
| 4 | How I wish I could draw , Donald ! |
| 5 | How I wish I could find a master like you , tough and strong . |
| 6 | Seven months on , how I wish I could say that the Escort/Orion range is at least going in the right direction . |
| 7 | How I wish I could have helped him . ’ |
| 8 | All of this has made me understand that it is time for change , and I want to explain how I believe I can continue to serve Britain . |
| 9 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 10 | The wolves were real enough , although there are times when I think I must have imagined them . |
| 11 | With my family growing up I was needing more money and er that 's when I decided I would apply for a foreman 's job at . |
| 12 | I can still see myself sitting there , relaxed and comforted by the warm drink , and then there was that moment when I decided I would resign . |
| 13 | From where I lay I could see the repeated pattern of the sleepers slowly passing beneath the train . |
| 14 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 15 | And the factory where I work I should think we took about fourteen of the men at this factory . |
| 16 | Her head did not nearly reach his shoulder , and even from where I stood I could sense the gentleness , the protectiveness , which were to be her portion . |
| 17 | Even from where I stood I could smell the strong , stale wine fumes which permeated the stench of the ripped body . |
| 18 | Even from where I stood I could see the white and yellow of dog-daisies and hawkear blowing in the sea-breeze like coloured veils over the green . |
| 19 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |
| 20 | Well to be honest Ja I ca n't see that far normally from where I live I can see the White Horse bank but it 's shrouded in mist at the moment erm no I ca n't see so I could n't tell you whether there there is snow up there or not . |
| 21 | That 's why I thought I 'll get the stupid things out this morning and then them , they 'll all be dried by tomorrow . |
| 22 | doing that that 's why I thought I 'd get , you know , a response out of people |
| 23 | ‘ My thoughts exactly , which is why I thought I 'd have a chat with you . ’ |
| 24 | It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's precisely why I think I should talk to the Prince . |
| 26 | to delegate yeah well I mean that 's this is why I think I should bring forward a supervisors course for , for , for , for |
| 27 | In one way I regret it , which is a reason why I think I should have started playing professionally later on . |
| 28 | And that 's why I think I can give my qualified support to the proposal for for an exceptions policy . |
| 29 | That 's when she said I 'll have Go Go instead then . |
| 30 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |