Example sentences of "i [vb past] [Wh det] i be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I realized what I was leaving behind — my childhood , my home , and Joe . |
| 2 | Then I realized what I was saying . |
| 3 | ’ I realized what I was saying . |
| 4 | I realized what I was doing and decided to have this problem analyzed , and I traced it back to when I was in hospital as a child . |
| 5 | Then I realised what I was saying , and it sort of realised that it was n't really a a complimentary thing to say to her . |
| 6 | Fate seemed to be steering my course , as in Theosophy I found what I was seeking . |
| 7 | Finally , at one of the smaller institutes , one on the Restoration of Palaces , I found what I was looking for . |
| 8 | Sure enough I found what I was looking for : a concealed pocket inside the quilted jerkin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I hated what I was saying too . ’ |
| 12 | I decided what I was going to do almost immediately . |
| 13 | I 'd used dikes , DFs and things like that before , so I knew what I was getting into . |
| 14 | I found that sentence easier because I knew what I was getting into . |
| 15 | I was so eager to start training an owl , I felt I knew what I was taking on , and yet the right bird eluded me . |
| 16 | So when he was approached in the early '80s to be part-time chairman of Wandsworth Health Authority in London ‘ I knew what I was taking on ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew what I was going to do . |
| 18 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 19 | So when I went , I had to go again on Monday I took just my purse in my pocket and thought oh this is bit , cos I mean I knew what I was going for , you know , were n't looking round for anything in particular and I thought this is bit risky ! |
| 20 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |
| 21 | ‘ Because I do n't think I knew what I was daeing either . ’ |
| 22 | Since they had n't spotted me earlier , there was no embarrassment attached to my circuitous ramble and I hailed them with a tone of voice that sounded as if I knew what I was doing . |
| 23 | I knew what I was doing ; I was thoroughly prepared ; but that did n't mean that when the day came I was n't in a state of nervous collapse . |
| 24 | I knew what I was doing and knew that it was wrong — but when you 're 14 , everything you want to do is wrong . |
| 25 | Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists . |
| 26 | Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me . |
| 27 | So I knew what I was doing . |
| 28 | Every so often , we are startled , such as when we read of an expatriate black South African who longs for apartheid : ‘ At least in South Africa I knew what I was fighting against . |
| 29 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 30 | Finally , turning a corner , I saw what I was looking for . |