Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I meant how did you get word down to Blair Gowrie ? |
| 2 | Well they they knew how to do it did n't they ? |
| 3 | Aye you know , holding them on the plank and th passing them to the But the the men that were stowing them , they were regular men on the They knew how to do it see . |
| 4 | Her body knew his touch , just as she knew how to touch him to make his heart beat , feel his pulse quicken . |
| 5 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 6 | As Sister Cecilia was to say to her , one could live without reading , writing , or arithmetic , sewing , singing or geography ; and yes — there would be a twinkle in her eye — with some , even without the good God ; but one could n't live without food and without those who knew how to make it appetising to the tongue . |
| 7 | At this year 's Reading Festival , Smashing Pumpkins came in slightly below par , perhaps due to the rigours of touring , but , a few nights before , in the more intimate setting of Newcastle 's Riverside , they clean blew the roof off with an energetic gig that showed that some members had an appreciation of heavy metal but knew how to drag it breathing heavily into the '90s . |
| 8 | Oh yeah there was lots of foreigners , Americans and foreign people there all with maps out on the tables , trying to find their way round York , which I knew that Stuart knew so it was n't too bad for us , but there 's loads of people , you know thought how do we get to this from here and well it 's certainly a a an experience . |
| 9 | And if he knew why did he tell her and annoy her still further ? |
| 10 | When asked later how he knew where to begin he replied , ‘ I did n't — and Sir Hugh Casson said ‘ Just absorb the atmosphere ’ . ' |
| 11 | No , and I did n't do that until I read someone Niall 's and he had repeated flowers and I thought why has he repeated flowers and realised that in fact that it is necessary . |
| 12 | There are other times when I 've turned back and felt ‘ gosh no , this is wrong ’ and afterwards thought why did I turn back , maybe I should have carried on . |
| 13 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 14 | Looking round his room , Maxim realised how spoiled he had become by married quarters and flats . |
| 15 | You said about the hens making a lot , how did how did they work that as an industry with the eggs and things how did they collect and work ? |
| 16 | What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that |
| 17 | Well how did how did you manage to get a C you had something here and you differentiated it |
| 18 | Right which where did where did he spend his holiday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I said how did she do it , did she , did Jane ever do it ? |
| 21 | I goes what ? , she said how did you loose it in there ? , |
| 22 | I said to Dave I said how have you spent all that money ? |
| 23 | Right so what you said I said how do you spell sock S O C K but what you said was S H O C K. |
| 24 | I said How do you mean ? |
| 25 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 26 | I said to the bloke I said how do you get out that junction ? |
| 27 | And she said how do you know Mrs she said to me . |
| 28 | Well it 's too hard , I said how do you know it 's too hard ? |
| 29 | I said how come you do it at school now and you do n't bring it home any more ? |
| 30 | because I was n't I said how come it ends up being that and they said you just carry . |