Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh adv] do you [vb infin] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	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.
2	I said How do you mean ?
3	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 ?
4	I said to the bloke I said how do you get out that junction ?
5	And she said how do you know Mrs she said to me .
6	Well it 's too hard , I said how do you know it 's too hard ?
7	Well when he , I said where do you get that from ?
8	I give Jim that bit of cheese he said where do you find this ?
9	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 ?
10	I said why do you work full time ?
11	Of course , the woman said why do you come ?

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