Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] i be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the overwhelming majority of the palace 's clients when I was in the North-East were local men , and nearly half — the biggest single category — were there because their own homes had been disbanded . |
| 2 | They were painted at the Royal Academy Schools when I was a student immediately before the closing of the Schools in 1940 . |
| 3 | But I give them a so then I saw Mrs on Tuesday when I was at Ashington . |
| 4 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 5 | So then I saw Mrs Irwin on Tuesday when I was in and she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the new development . |
| 6 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 7 | ‘ We talked about fun and cars when I was beginning to think they were no longer synonymous ’ |
| 8 | And they still had ration books when I was a kid . |
| 9 | To conclude the story I do n't know who pegged the match but afterwards I talked to one of the locals who told me they never peg the stretch where I was . |
| 10 | I like a car where I 'm in charge . |
| 11 | This behaviour , lasting as it did throughout the months when I was most tortured , was itself a minor enigma . |
| 12 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 13 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 14 | ‘ Thank you , Madame , that will be all for the moment , but , ’ he bent his head close to her ear as they moved towards the door , ‘ I would ask you to act as my eyes and ears when I am not present . |
| 15 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 16 | Yeah you know that when we were , on Friday when I was in my room he came up |
| 17 | There was much talk when I was boy of Haskala - which is civic freedom , ja ? |
| 18 | But I then put the Whitley into the most desperate dive , everything in the cabin was floating , and before the Foxes could turn round and do anything about , it I was over the Channel , I landed at Manston where I was put under arrest immediately . |
| 19 | Most parties when I was young , this is where you 'd want to bring your girl — quiet , secluded , romantic view across the water . |
| 20 | And er you know he was I mean for instance at Salisbury Park he probably did n't mean anything but on Saturday when I was saying goodbye to him he said now I hope there 'll be somebody here at ten past ten to open this church tomorrow . |
| 21 | We were also lucky enough to find Goutama , whom I remembered as a young syce in the Legation stables when I was a boy ; he had accompanied my father on his long trek to Nairobi in 1914 . |
| 22 | My father died when I was one week old , so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby . |
| 23 | I once asked a taxi driver to take me to the Glasgow Herald offices whither I was to hand in my weekly scribblings . |
| 24 | ‘ Just promise me you 'll never handle a crossbow whenever I am anywhere near you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He 's offered me a room at Armscott whenever I 'm down in Oxfordshire . ’ |
| 26 | This was in the mining valleys of Glamorgan where I was born and brought up . |
| 27 | Allison said : ‘ The atmosphere was just like the Manchester derbies when I was at Maine Road . |
| 28 | B When I 'm amongst my friends — messin' about , you know , joke about an " have a laugh then you hear all of it come out . |
| 29 | ‘ I went to a series of lectures on the history of art which he gave in Exeter where I was in my final year reading English . |
| 30 | I started making cakes when I was 10 — sandwich cakes were my speciality — and now I 'm a real expert . |