Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] he [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From where I was out in the audience I could n't see what Clarence White was doing — so I assumed he was playing bottleneck |
| 2 | He said if I thought he was going to be the Hindu Salman Rushdie , I was mistaken : he saw himself more as a Hindu P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 3 | He used to visit the factory rather late in the afternoon and , if I knew he was coming , I would wait there for him under some pretext . |
| 4 | Cos I thought he was doing pretty well in the Post Office , he was |
| 5 | but it was alright because I knew he was doing it did n't piss me off really . |
| 6 | No , I only got , because I knew he was coming back up |
| 7 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 8 | And when I discovered he was going to be a priest . |
| 9 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
| 10 | That 's why I panicked when I heard he was missing . |
| 11 | When I left he was gazing about disconsolately , still trying to get the idea . |
| 12 | He never found anything ; when I left he was waiting for a new pair to be brought up from Auckland , and wondering if the insurance company would cough up . |
| 13 | what happens , then his she stands there , you bloody by four but I mean he finished when I said he was gon na finish for a change I should think . |
| 14 | Was going to tell her this morning , but when I came downstairs and saw her packing up that cake — when I remembered he was going to be there , that I 'd have to see his smug damned face , hear that ghastly loud laugh of his … |
| 15 | A shiver ran up my spine and into my scalp , as I realized he was singing ‘ Mary from Dunloe ’ . |