Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh adv] i be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We talked about fun and cars when I was beginning to think they were no longer synonymous ’ |
| 2 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 3 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 4 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | In those dark days when I was recovering from my knee injury I 'd play a video of an England match and upset myself all over again . |
| 7 | I just have a small preamp pedal to balance the volumes when I 'm changing from the Telecaster to the Gibson . |
| 8 | Now the last thing says labels code four , you 'll remember from the monthly card , I have these eight days where I was going to do the labels . |
| 9 | I never wilted and was proud of my fighting qualities when I was looking for survival and happy for any form of success . |
| 10 | It hardly makes sense to wear elegant suits and designer dresses when I 'm painting ! ’ |
| 11 | I had my fill of fucking antiques when I was growing up in Pimlico , and in Trenton , New Jersey . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I ought to have made more enquiries when I was inviting him — I mean , it would seem discourteous to ignore her , if she exists . |
| 13 | She came to one of our mission hospitals when I was training in Australia . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That 's the High Priestess and her two handmaidens when I 'm doing the mystical tours bit . |
| 15 | Well , I 'd heard someone had told the police where I was hanging out . |
| 16 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 17 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 18 | The fish were feeding ravenously , and several times when I was landing or unhooking fish the indicator on my other rod went sailing up . |
| 19 | ‘ He gave six reasons why I was getting the push , and they 're all crap . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | You know , ’ she confided , ‘ I sometimes think that one of the chief reasons why I 'm marrying Rob is because it will get me Luke as a half-brother-in-law . ’ |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | I remember Dinah Prentice reading aloud to me from John Prebble 's The Highland Clearances when I was drawing near Arisaig . |
| 24 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 25 | Doc Reid dishes me out a few vitamin pills when I 'm feeling lousy . ’ |
| 26 | She gave up the branch chairmanship of the Civil and Public Servants union in 1990 after 10 years and said of her multi-purpose role : ‘ My husband used to say our lounge was like an office on Sunday nights when I was sorting through my paperwork for the week . ’ |
| 27 | I once cut my wrist on a guillotine machine at a picture-frame makers where I was working . |