Example sentences of "was [Wh adv] i be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm That was where I was trying to get the blackbirds |
| 2 | Then he said , " In fairness to the Old Man , all the rest of it 's true ; I mean he did say you could come back to Drummonds later , for you to have fifty out of petty cash — which was where I was going to get it from to pay myself back " |
| 3 | And the Reeve 's Way , that was where I was going to march my army . |
| 4 | Ullapool was where I was heading there being no boats from Gairloch to Stornoway as in JTR 's day . |
| 5 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 6 | It was when I was resting my hand on her flank to steady her that I noticed the little swelling under the skin . |
| 7 | It was when I was gazing dully at the finger , the heel of my hand resting in an intercostal space , that I felt the faintest flutter from below . |
| 8 | ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume . |
| 9 | ‘ It was when I was working on Wildlife Safari to Argentina , filming in a subtropical province in the north , that I got this lump on my back . |
| 10 | It was when I was working for Walt Disney , so it 'll be two years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ As a matter of fact , the really nasty bit was when I was walking across here , coming over the head of the cliff there with the wind trying to blow me out to sea again . ’ |
| 12 | Oh , that was when I was waiting in the queue were n't it ? |
| 13 | No I was a , it was when I was going to work , in was in the afternoon like . |
| 14 | My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill . |
| 15 | Anyway , it 's one of the minor unfortunate facts of life that a detumescing willy is prone to trap stray pube hairs under the foreskin as it scrolls forward again , and that was why I was adjusting my clothing as we braked for the bend above Cairndow . |
| 16 | And they 'd call again later , which was why I was working by a single-bulb desk lamp , quickskimming the liquid and document overflow from my filing cabinets . |
| 17 | I assume that was why I was running so badly in the track season . |
| 18 | Through my right lung , which was why I was breathing oddly . |