Example sentences of "be [Wh adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABBERLEY : You 're where I live . |
| 2 | If we 're where I think we are we 've done very well . |
| 3 | The two rivers are very different to look at , or at least they have been whenever I have seen them . |
| 4 | When I am tired and think , ‘ I do n't want to do this any more ’ I just tell myself that it might not be here in a few months and that there 's probably a million who would kill to be where I am . |
| 5 | Without them , Mum and Dad and my brothers and sisters , I would not be where I am today . |
| 6 | Perhaps he wanted me to admit that I 'm a lucky bastard to be where I am , that I 'm Hollywood 's most successful failure , perhaps he wanted me to cry on screen . |
| 7 | If I 'd had just one chance I would n't be where I am today . |
| 8 | ‘ You ought to be where I am . |
| 9 | I would n't be where I am today if I could n't hold my own in a dog-eat-dog world . |
| 10 | They were looking for Elaine Webb — that must be where I read the name . |
| 11 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It obviously gave me a very good grounding and without it , I would n't be where I am today . |
| 13 | Could this be why I 'm ironing with a face-pack on ? |
| 14 | That might be why I did n't see it . |
| 15 | It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now . |
| 16 | ‘ They were why I was n't lonely , ’ Jos said . |
| 17 | ‘ They were when I left them this morning ’ |
| 18 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 19 | For example , in the scene where John first meets Mary , ‘ I did n't have the attitude right , and Peter said , ‘ Do you remember how you were when I first brought Mia backstage to meet you ? ’ |
| 20 | The methods employed — lecture , seminar , essay , school practice , school visit , methodology in theory and practice — remain as they were when I was trained . |
| 21 | And an hour or two later I shall leave them feeling considerably older and wiser than they were when I started . |
| 22 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
| 23 | He paused and then said quietly , ‘ Just as you were when I first saw you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you . |
| 25 | ‘ I am still very sad that to the best of my knowledge there are no more nurses on those wards than there were when I was dismissed . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll let you know where I am when I know it . |
| 27 | As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ . |
| 28 | You are why I came back , Miss Abbott . |
| 29 | That 's 'ow I can be so sure , you see . |
| 30 | That 's 'ow I can be so certain about the expression on 'is face . |