Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] i be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked up from the desk where I was writing in the day book . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I suppose it was on the floor somewhere , in a pub where I was tryin' to sell some violets to save meself from real starvation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Without further ado I had my servants haul the carcass back to the village where I was staying and get the fire stoked up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm gon na be ashamed of driving it again now , I was getting to a point where I was thinking oh my god , Christine came out in black all along here she said , er what 's that ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And there was a point where I was going to look for a job , drift off and forget about it . |
| 10 | because , yeah well I thought I might and then he said something about I was at this meeting where I was talking to all these official in their suits and ties and I was only dressed casual and I thought , at that point I sort of |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | The boy pointed across the room where I was sitting with my head in my hands , cigarette dangling out of my mouth . |
| 13 | Overall , the period when I was collecting had its successes , but there were also some failures . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've got caught in the post office once or twice on pension day when I was buying more stamps for my fruitless job applications . ’ |
| 16 | One day when I was collecting my money from Wemmick , he invited me to his house at Walworth , a village outside London . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And erm one day when I was digging in a vegetable garden , I got a whiff of a smelly swamp in the fields , which once , I knew , had been an , a pond in the last century . |
| 19 | but you 'll see players who , I mean , I mean , did it the other day when I was playing and she did this , oh yes , she I said you 've moved it , I thoroughly accepted it was n't through , you should n't do that . |
| 20 | I had the idea for this design one day when I was working on some embroidery . |
| 21 | I bought an answering machine — I leave it on all day when I 'm working because it 's quite a foil ! |
| 22 | She came through into the sitting-room where I was nursing a martini . |
| 23 | But one thing I can tell you about Port Vale , the ground has vastly changed from last season , the terracing 's been improved , their seating , it 's pure luxury apart from the press box , because I still have to climb that suspect wooden ladder , and perched on top of the main stand is a shed where I 'm speaking to you from Jane . |
| 24 | I well recall one tough Yorkshire girl who was on drugs at the time , coming to a service where I was preaching , and being pierced to the heart by a throwaway line I had never intended saying , about God hardening Pharaoh 's heart . |
| 25 | I noticed last night when I was bathing him and covered in his ears this one |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead . |
| 28 | She showed me last night when I was fucking her salami ! |
| 29 | And I notice as well er more so at night when I 'm watching T VCV or even when I , I go to bed |
| 30 | Marie told me to be sure to switch it off when I ai n't in the room , or else at night when I 'm sleeping . |