Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh adv] i be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | What I why I was emphasizing earlier on how important it is to get all this over on the telephone . |
2 | I can usually tell by when I when I 'm doing a fact-find reply obviously you find out whether their erm position is , is erm simply building society or national savings investment , or whether they 've gone into shares or unit trusts or investment trusts , and you can see at what level they 're operating and of course if they 've still got their money under the bed , then |
3 | ‘ Why should I tell you where I 'm going , mum ? ’ they say . |
4 | ‘ It was the usual one — the one where I 'm searching for Mark . |
5 | Right , well I I just just looked at one where I was struggling , that 's why I mention it . |
6 | Yeah , the sort of thing Lucy and I were talking about earlier is , it was just before I went on holiday so my memory is kind of hazy , it 's one where I was going to see the Arts Council and see if they were interested in the idea if they work |
7 | I realized I had not told anybody where I was going . |
8 | I wrote to my mother who lived up at Manzanita with her sister , Mrs. R. V. Hungerford , telling her how I was leaving my position and would write again when I had found some place I liked . |
9 | ‘ I had to tell him where I was coming from and what I was about , ’ she frowns , upper lip curling in disdain . |
10 | The gentleman in question did exhibit a certain alarm because when I told him why I was looking at his land he thought it might lead to a conservation order being slapped on it . |
11 | If only it could tell me how I am failing it . |
12 | Erm , it took , it took a week and a half before the fresh foods secretary even spoke to me when I went in this place to do the free appointment , nobody 's told me how I 'm doing , so then what 's the point of doing these things if nobody 's going give you anything , it 's just a waste of time ? |
13 | Nobody went on about my injury — just asked me how I was getting along in Italy . ’ |
14 | But your fresh deputy should be the one who 's giving you the feedback , I mean , all the time I was on provisions in my last department , and nobody ever told me how I was doing . |
15 | White blurs passed around us and coloured pills stuck in my throat but , from time to time , I saw a man in a room on my own and he always asked me how I was feeling . |
16 | This is why they ask you things like , on interviews , and they ask you , where do you see yourself in five years ' time , and I used to say , I do n't even see meself where I 'm going to be in five days ' time , never mind five , just give us the bloody job . |
17 | ‘ Remind me why I am going , ’ the minister would say on the outward aeroplane , and sometimes ‘ Remind me why I went ’ on the way back . |
18 | Merton 's clothes on this show had by now reached previously unfathomed depths : shrunk , unironed Magic Roundabout T-shirts and lumberjack shirts without washing instructions ( on the one occasion Merton wore a smart suit , he stopped the show mid-way through and exclaimed : ‘ Is n't anyone going to ask me why I 'm looking so smart today ? ’ ) . |
19 | ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys . |
20 | Perhaps she could tell me why I was bleeding . |
21 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
22 | I paused for a moment , then said , ‘ Kathleen , let me tell you what I think would happen if I did as you say and then you tell me where I 'm going wrong . |
23 | ‘ That was him asking me where I was going , in case you did n't notice . ’ |
24 | ‘ You tell me when I 'm smiling just from watching my eyes . ’ |
25 | I remembered the sort of questions Father used to ask me when I was reading a book he knew by heart , and greatly loved . |