Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] i be write " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of which I 'm writing Alison was in her third year studying French and Russian at university and Sandy , having qualified in medicine , was doing a year 's postgraduate research in the States . |
| 2 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 3 | Nevertheless his poetry , as he said in an interview some years later , had " connected the wartime work very well " and " fitted in very nicely to the conditions under which I was writing " . |
| 4 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 5 | I find myself here and now — at my hotel window , the road below crowded with traffic , the fish market gone until tomorrow , the winter sun lighting the exercise book in which I 'm writing these events of nearly three years past — wanting to put down my pen , lean back and wonder at my arrogance , such stubborn obtuseness . |
| 6 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 7 | The desk on which I am writing exists " in time " ; the concept desk does not . |
| 8 | He just came over to my desk , looked down at what I was writing and whispered , almost to himself , ‘ You 're as bad as your bloody father ! ’ |
| 9 | I was writing all the stuff , all this weirdo stuff , and he was standing over me looking at me , looking at what I was writing . |