Example sentences of "i [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 If only it could tell me how I am failing it .
4 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 ?
5 Nobody went on about my injury — just asked me how I was getting along in Italy . ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 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 ? ’ ) .
10 ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys .
11 Perhaps she could tell me why I was bleeding .
12 ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food .
13 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 .
14 ‘ That was him asking me where I was going , in case you did n't notice . ’
15 ‘ You tell me when I 'm smiling just from watching my eyes . ’
16 I remembered the sort of questions Father used to ask me when I was reading a book he knew by heart , and greatly loved .
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