Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to tell him where I was coming from and what I was about , ’ she frowns , upper lip curling in disdain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If only it could tell me how I am failing it . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Nobody went on about my injury — just asked me how I was getting along in Italy . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ ) . |
| 14 | ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys . |
| 15 | Perhaps she could tell me why I was bleeding . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ That was him asking me where I was going , in case you did n't notice . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You tell me when I 'm smiling just from watching my eyes . ’ |
| 20 | I remembered the sort of questions Father used to ask me when I was reading a book he knew by heart , and greatly loved . |