Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh adv] do [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | And if he knew why did he tell her and annoy her still further ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that |
| 9 | Well how did how did you manage to get a C you had something here and you differentiated it |
| 10 | Right which where did where did he spend his holiday . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I said how did she do it , did she , did Jane ever do it ? |
| 13 | I goes what ? , she said how did you loose it in there ? , |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | I said How do you mean ? |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | I said to the bloke I said how do you get out that junction ? |
| 18 | And she said how do you know Mrs she said to me . |
| 19 | Well it 's too hard , I said how do you know it 's too hard ? |
| 20 | Well when he , I said where do you get that from ? |
| 21 | I give Jim that bit of cheese he said where do you find this ? |
| 22 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 23 | I said where did you get it from ? |
| 24 | I said where did you get the tarmac from ? , been up London about , on his way to London by about half past four he said well there 's , there 's , three tarmac places , basically he people like that |
| 25 | She said I do n't know what your there 's a missing , so I it said Mr G , so dad said why does it say Mr and er , she said it 's a court order she said , court order , she said er that has been in the yard |
| 26 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
| 27 | She said when , when Mrs said why did you ask Emma she goes , cos we asked you to go the cinema all the time . |
| 28 | Policeman come over and said why did you kill all these three , these three spastics . |
| 29 | Okay , let's John said why did I reduce it and you have n't , I have to say , really explained to people why we are doing what we are doing now , why we are n't here discussing why there 's another half million in the budget . |
| 30 | David the psalmist , he could see the wicked , and he said why do they prosper ? |