Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] i be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always felt that he ought to know how I 'm feeling — to realise that I 've got problems too . |
| 2 | ‘ You and Daddy always want to know where I 'm going , what I 'm doing , who I 'm with . |
| 3 | ‘ My parents have been pestered by people who want to know when I am coming home , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ She wants to know when I 'm going back . ’ |
| 5 | Do you want to know why I 'm wearing two pairs of knickers because |
| 6 | They want to know why I 'm drinking Diet Coke . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean , I 'm not supposed to know why I 'm going ? ’ |
| 8 | He wanted to know why I was flashing the light . |
| 9 | Dr Mortimer wanted to know why I was asking about Mrs Lyons . |
| 10 | I could n't even be bothered to look where I was going . |
| 11 | And it was rough going , and I had to watch my head and I had to watch where I was putting my feet . |
| 12 | I ask Tor , who has come across to see how I am coping , if this is normal , a guarded , off-the-cuff way of informing him that I am shit-scared and would like the weather to change . |
| 13 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
| 14 | I look at McDunn to see how I 'm doing . |
| 15 | So I 'm going to use three things to , to see how I 'm doing both in planning and actual . |
| 16 | ‘ I managed to tip half a pint of crème brûlée over the manager one evening when he came in to see how I was getting on . |
| 17 | You know and I said I , I 'm Margaret you know , Adrian from the City Council was you know I , er sort of thing like that , I was trying to think how I was going to say it |
| 18 | Then I realized most of the visitors and all the residents were watching me and I turned my head from side to side to see why I was getting that uncomfortable my-flies-must-be-open feeling . |
| 19 | ‘ With the peak covering my eyes like this I have to hold my head back to see where I 'm going or I 'd break my neck . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll be able to see where I 'm going a lot better now , ’ he said . |
| 21 | And I felt I could n't design rational experiments without having some type of criteria to judge the results against ; otherwise I would n't be able to see where I was going . |
| 22 | ‘ Barry , excuse me for asking this , but why would n't I want to see where I was going ? ’ |
| 23 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 24 | I 'm trying to explain why I 'm breaking with my principles ( about never committing violence ) . |
| 25 | He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state . |
| 26 | Er the delivery part it was more the cluster but the overall delivery allowed me to prepare how I was going to be standing er how to get the audience in contact with me the eye the eye contact and also the way I spoke . |