Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [adj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked across the terrace to the grim yew trees and thought , That 's how they all expect me to be — silent and still . |
| 2 | How it all happened I now do n't quite know , |
| 3 | You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation . |
| 4 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 5 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 6 | But I had a very nasty moment when she first told me . ’ |
| 7 | you know reduced price but never-the-less money new cooker gas hob removed because that was going U S and an electric hob put in the formica in the kitchen , if you remember when you first saw me , it was tiles it was n't formica , it was ghastly tiles and when Ned lifted all that out it was black with with rotten mould ! |
| 8 | Goodness knows how many years ago , when you first told me you were going to marry Madeleine , I warned you that the gentry do n't marry working-class folk . |
| 9 | and from the Exea , Exeter College where she first knew me , so |
| 10 | hopefully it 's gon na be some form of positive response I 'm glad you should say that because if you cast your mind back to when we first talked I did say that if you were happy , and only if you 're happy , |
| 11 | At the age of 22 he wrote to his father from Paris : ‘ What annoys me most is that these idiots in France still think I am seven years old , because that is when they first knew me . ’ |