Example sentences of "the [noun] [Wh adv] i be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I walked onto the beach behind the resort where I was staying , I realised its potential . |
| 2 | When he gave the order , they began to cut the corn in the field where I was hiding . |
| 3 | ‘ They deserve that sort of commitment and that 's one of the reasons why I 'm stepping back — because you can not half do it . |
| 4 | You 've got ta probe and establish the reasons why I 'm gon na talk to him and most people it 's , it 's , it 's a lie , they 're not gon na talk to him , they want to use the accountant as a reason to say oh erm I 'm , I ca n't do it this time the accountant said no or I 've not spoken to him yet I 'll have to put it off for a , for a bit longer |
| 5 | A view of the park of the asylum where I am staying ; on the right a grey terrace and a side wall of the house . |
| 6 | Without further ado I had my servants haul the carcass back to the village where I was staying and get the fire stoked up . |
| 7 | I looked up from the desk where I was writing in the day book . |
| 8 | That 's right , that 's right , I , I tend to keep my watch to the minute if I possibly can , but that 's bad habit or really habit from the days when I was catching trains every day , and I 'd never caught a train with any time to spare , erm |
| 9 | And what I want to do is , as the moment where I 'm going in and teaching in the area that I am I do n't mind the learning support bit , I do n't mind the fact that the chil er the , the , yeah , yeah |
| 10 | The boy pointed across the room where I was sitting with my head in my hands , cigarette dangling out of my mouth . |
| 11 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 12 | Keane , who is being pursued by Liverpool , Manchester United , Arsenal and Blackburn , admitted : ‘ Forest have spoken to me about a long-term contract , but I do n't want to get to the point where I am arguing over details and money . |
| 13 | I think at the point where I was struggling to understand what I could do to help myself , I certainly was n't aware of anything called patient-centred medicine at that point , or group-activity in relation to health . |
| 14 | I just have a small preamp pedal to balance the volumes when I 'm changing from the Telecaster to the Gibson . |
| 15 | Overall , the period when I was collecting had its successes , but there were also some failures . |
| 16 | During the period when I was preparing my Report , three groups of people were involved in manoeuvres to control the National Curriculum in English : journalists , politicians and professional teachers . |
| 17 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 18 | She came through into the sitting-room where I was nursing a martini . |
| 19 | On the day when I was wilting with heat my feet were not in the least sweaty , but I would have liked more support — I thought it barely adequate except for lowland walking . |
| 20 | Now he came into the dining-room where I was working and sat down opposite me at the table . |
| 21 | Yes , what it was , early in the season when I was playing left back erm I had to stay back , but recently because I 'm playing centre half , I get up to get the set pieces , so it 's nice for me as well . |
| 22 | She came to the rehearsal and came down the bridge over the orchestra where I was directing , and she said to the manager , ‘ If this veil remains , I do not sing . ’ |
| 23 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 24 | He was one of the chief councillors of the town , owner of the farm where I was staying , owner of one of the seven cars in the city and with a thumb in several lucrative businesses ( a bakery , a copra concern and the handmade brick factory ) . |
| 25 | Well , I 'd heard someone had told the police where I was hanging out . |
| 26 | Ellen 's is a true story ; perhaps it is even the reason why I am telling you Flaubert 's story instead . |
| 27 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 28 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |
| 29 | The reason why I 'm asking the question is that if for example , Richard 's responsible for a form and perhaps for the master of it , that does n't mean to say that you 've actually got the folders in your office . |
| 30 | I could smell her scent , very sharp and close , through the fog and dog smells at the foot of the lamp-post where I was sitting on the ground . |