Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at what you 've written and think , Oh I was just fumbling about here I did n't know where I was going . |
| 2 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
| 4 | ranging from when I went to Leeds to that seminar and there were people excited about the Festival and you know , two weeks before the Festival speaking to Jane in London , said oh we 've had a lot of you know and I said well I 'll get back to you in September and tell you |
| 5 | I mean , these were people I was listening to when I was kid , and then suddenly I 'm having dinner with Carl Perkins ! |
| 6 | ‘ My weight fluctuated wildly according to how I ate ’ |
| 7 | I was tall and slim but I had an eating disorder and my weight fluctuated wildly according to how I ate . |
| 8 | And the the question before them , and therefore before me in r considering the objections , is whether or not these sites are part of the general extent of greenbelt around the village , or are a part of this village er which does not as a whole perform a greenbelt function , and that 's what I 'm looking at when I make my site visit . |
| 9 | Well I I know where I am so I ai n't got ta worry but boxing day we 're going to well I was going to mum 's I 'll come up and see you boxing day though . |
| 10 | She goes to me , oh how you getting to well I was hoping like , you 'd take me , she goes , oh yes ? |
| 11 | and he 's the same age as granddad , I could n't believe it and he was saying about well I 'm seventy one this year actually younger than my dad and he looks really old and we were |
| 12 | Reckon I 'm coming to well I ca n't come to that detention anyway cos I have to go to West Side Story tonight . |
| 13 | That 's coming to then I can start to look in more detail |
| 14 | In my own case , this view is only xenophobic in patches , depending on where I go and who lives there . |
| 15 | ‘ If we do n't eat soon , ’ said Tim , ‘ this ineffably delicious dish will either burn to a crisp or go cold , depending on how I decide to proceed . |
| 16 | Depending on how I was , on my own mood , he could be very funny . ’ |
| 17 | And in in the circumstances I 'm talking about where I would work on the side , then it 's always gon na be erm turning to the quickest resort , rather than the last resort you know . |
| 18 | no , we 're just talking about when I did last week remember when I went teaching last week and you went to Ian 's house did n't you ? |
| 19 | With this it dawned on me what they were talking about so I became more attentive . |
| 20 | That 's what we 're talking about now I think . |
| 21 | while I was sitting from here I could erm see it had something stuck on it . |
| 22 | Unless you have a good reason for standing over there I should come out and get some fresh air . |
| 23 | Yeah he 's ve well funnily he 's er sit sitting over there I told him off when we came in he was driving too fast . |
| 24 | Er , and I 'd have to start thinking about where I am again . |
| 25 | Now , I 've really got to start thinking about where I want the ball to be . |
| 26 | But she had n't moved and I began thinking about how I was going to get her out to our vehicle . |
| 27 | why I , I wanted to go around with you , but I wanted you , what I was thinking of when I was sat in the car that you , when you come back you could take me round when you 've been round |
| 28 | I mean you know I ca n't be bothered trying to so I do n't think I will go . |
| 29 | However , let me assure you that your star sign had little bearing on how I conducted the interview . ’ |
| 30 | That is what I was dreaming about when I was young . |