Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He understood how she needed me when war broke out and most of the men were away , he realized I would n't feel able to go back to England and abandon her . |
| 2 | ‘ If I knew how I meant I should n't be asking you to design it , because that 's what design is , knowing how you mean . |
| 3 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 4 | complained how he says I 've got one of his and I had n't got it , it 's Linda that had got it . |
| 5 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 6 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |
| 7 | I knew he had been a colleague of my father ; I wondered how he knew I was on the Sort-to . |