Example sentences of "of what i was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 2 | Your comment that the central thesis of my lecture does not stand up stems from a misunderstanding of what I was trying to say . |
| 3 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 4 | Yet I can not relinquish the Situation without expressing my Obligation for your appointment though the Emolument fell short of what I was taught to expect . |
| 5 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |
| 6 | At this stage a very smart young officer got out , immaculate in the rig of what I was to learn was the American Army Air Corps . |
| 7 | ‘ He was , until he got a whiff of what I was planning to do . |
| 8 | One night I was so touched by yet another account of his plight that I said , without realising the full implications of what I was saying , that there was a spare bedroom in Mrs Smith 's house . |
| 9 | I used to wonder whether they were actually taking in the meaning of what I was saying , or just listening to the accent . |
| 10 | I did n't know how much of what I was saying he understood . |
| 11 | from the Personnel department asking for details of what I was offering because the medical reports had now gone to the medical officer . |
| 12 | Without really being conscious of what I was doing , I ended up heading roughly north . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not from fear — for the sheer nobility of what I was doing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 19 | I could n't dream of what I was going to do because you become so dependent on money . |
| 20 | I had sorted out all the details I needed in the Yemen , such as colour sketches , colour matches and photographic records of dress materials and patterns , so consequently had an idea of what I was putting together . |
| 21 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ I agreed quickly without the faintest idea of what I was agreeing to . |