Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] me [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 2 | Someone told me how her director always says at the end of her outpourings , ‘ Let us keep silent and wait on the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 3 | I 'm not surprised , ’ he lied , ‘ but will someone tell me why he 's liked so much ? ’ |
| 4 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 5 | One day , thought Preston , one glorious day when someone asks me how I am , I shall tell them . |
| 6 | Sheila Hancock was in that film too , as was Nanette Newman , both of whom told me how Ken would while away his time discussing the medical advances of which apparently the medical staff in the picture were not aware . |
| 7 | That did n't go down very well an' then 'e asked me why . |
| 8 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 9 | I already had two vital tools of the caddie 's trade in my pocket : notes on the measurements and characteristics of each hole , which I had checked and rechecked on the practice days ; and a chart , issued ahead of each day 's play by the PGA which told me where the hole would be cut on each green . |
| 10 | Can somebody tell me where the sugar is please ? |
| 11 | Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing . |
| 12 | The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) . |
| 13 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 14 | Well , he could remember , and he was n't afraid , for he could remember even now … and Kraal began to speak ‘ You asked me where I came from , Creggan , and I will tell you . |
| 15 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 16 | You asked me how I stayed happily married and I replied . |
| 17 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 18 | So when she asked me where we 'd be without him , my urge was to reply , ‘ Rich . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 20 | She asked me why I tried to commit suicide . |
| 21 | Then she asked me why we treated social services staff differently from everyone else . |
| 22 | Instead , she asked me why I thought I drank so much , and I told her why I thought I did . |
| 23 | Immediately she asked me when I might be free , but I was able to murmur , ‘ It 's a little difficult , Mrs Fawcett , until I get around a bit more and establish some duty rosters . ’ |
| 24 | The next morning , she asked me how my night had been . |
| 25 | She asked me how I knew and I told her she 'd taught me what to look for . |
| 26 | She asked me how I felt towards Abraham , told me of his feelings for me , and offered sisterly advice on how to win him . |
| 27 | But for some reason she knew he was my brother , and she asked me how he was keeping these days . ’ |
| 28 | She asked me how many children 's I 'd fostered , but I said I could n't remember . |
| 29 | ‘ She asked me how I was and when I would be moving in to the cottage . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You touch me whenever you feel like it , ’ she swept on resentfully . |