Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] i be [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked around a bit to let my trousers dry and practised what I was going to say when Gillian opened the door . |
| 2 | That 's right , we 'll change the subject , so er erm oh , forgot whatever I was going to say to you oh are you doing anything Saturday night ? |
| 3 | Ar , now I forgot what I was going to say , so I 'll have to go back and look at my piece of paper now . |
| 4 | Yeah , a and in fact in the programme I th the one that Barbara was in , I can remember the er , as it happens , I , I was out er when that programme came on and I taped it so I s I , I 've still got that particular programme , and the lady at the end er on one of her questions she 'd obviously forgotten what she was going to say er and sort of made something up and er she turned to er as they were just panning away from her , she turned to her next door neighbour and more or less said I forgot what I was going to say , you know . |
| 5 | I decided what I was going to do almost immediately . |
| 6 | ‘ You knew what I was going to say throughout this entire conversation . ’ |
| 7 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew what I was going to do . |
| 9 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 10 | of what sixth form courses entails , now , erm , three or four of us thought it might be worth our while , or your while if you just briefly said what I 'm going to say now , that erm , the , the |
| 11 | Yes , just listen , I ca n't imagine why you misunderstood what I was trying to say . |