Example sentences of "if he [verb] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released .
2 I wound down the window and asked him if he knew where the dolmen was .
3 He also described a call he had made later to his friend Hartmut Mayer of the BKA asking him if he knew how the bomb had been put aboard Flight 103 .
4 However in many ways , Caulfield is the complete opposite of Lucy Snowe ; where she is quiet and retiring , and hides her feelings , Holden speaks his ; for example , he will strike up a conversation with anyone he meets — at one point in the book , Holden asks his taxi-driver if he knows where the ducks in Central Park go when their lake freezes !
5 One of them asked another if he remembered how the Magistrate Sahib had tried to make them strengthen the embankments and this caused such merriment that one of the landowners almost fell into the water .
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