Example sentences of "[prep] what i [was/were] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without really being conscious of what I was doing , I ended up heading roughly north . |
| 2 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 3 | I did however , have a shaky start with casting on , but I read the instruction book , back to front and upside down until I had a good idea of what I was doing , resulting in two 4-ply cardigans for my eldest two grand-daughters . |
| 4 | One of my best-known remarks was when I was Chancellor and Geoffrey Howe was my opponent , and he made a rather damaging criticism of what I was doing and I did n't want to spend time on that . |
| 5 | Not from fear — for the sheer nobility of what I was doing . |
| 6 | I find now that I can take a little comfort for acting beyond my authority and without Don Bennett 's knowledge of what I was doing . |
| 7 | Shocked granny Vera said last night : ‘ I was washing up cups at the time and he told me he did n't agree with what I was doing . |
| 8 | There were times when I was frustrated and not satisfied with what I was doing . |
| 9 | ‘ I believed in what I was doing , ’ he told the lawyers , smarting at the implication that maybe he did n't ; ‘ Once I talked to Ollie the first or second time , man I believed . ’ |
| 10 | So often on this project even the oldest locals interested in what I was doing had no memory , actual or handed down , of the people mentioned by JTR . |
| 11 | I was working on my own and I was n't aware of anyone doing similar work — or that anyone would be interested in what I was doing . ’ |
| 12 | I found that if I immersed myself in what I was doing , the people respected my work and usually kept quiet , aware of my concentration . |
| 13 | Right erm a lot of good things there erm empathy is I think the second thing I wrote down on , on the strength , brilliant very see that obviously open up erm there was interest in what I was doing , you , you were confident . |
| 14 | I would not do something if I was not 100pc comfortable in what I was doing . ’ |
| 15 | I looked up from what I was doing and people were running everywhere . |
| 16 | Ten , almost eleven years , have passed and I have no notion as to what I was doing in all that time . ’ |
| 17 | er ready to enter the flat , he would n't have been paying attention to what I was doing . |
| 18 | What , what , what he said no doubt P C was looking after his troops and he was n't paying as much attention to what I was doing as I was taking . |
| 19 | know what I want and then I 'll come back to what I was doing . |
| 20 | Oh look , seems different to what I was doing . |
| 21 | I thought that Carl could be right about this — better to get out , relax and concentrate on what I was doing and not on anybody else . |
| 22 | However , at this new point in my life there seemed — as of course there was — nothing remarkable about what I was doing . |
| 23 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 24 | If I had used words , I should have had to think more carefully about what I was doing . |
| 25 | Hobbling into Range West on crutches , with a rope round my shoulders , I was looking forward to the expressions of disbelief that would have greeted my reply to sentries ' questions about what I was doing . |
| 26 | My teacher , Mr Taylor , did tell us to do our talk on something we knew about , so I asked if I could bring Dawn in and tell the other kids about what I was doing . |
| 27 | It seemed that everyone wanted to know about what I was doing . |
| 28 | Once , when I told her a lie about what I was doing , in order to evade hostile questioning , she said , severely , ‘ You 're growing too like your father . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He should have done that in the first place , and I should have thought about what I was doing instead of just floating along with whatever he put to me . |
| 30 | For what I was doing , on furniture , the silver burrs were extremely effective , retaining their edge . |