Example sentences of "[adv] what i was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not over familiar with the works of Ira , Chuck and Sid but Elliott 's sounds are pretty much what I was expecting . |
| 2 | that was obviously what I was gon na say . |
| 3 | As the group went on I was being truthful , I put down what I was drinking . |
| 4 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |
| 5 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 6 | So what I was gon na say was , that , that partic , partic er participant observations typically involves actually living with the , the study for a fair amount of time , so erm although they might tell you a pack of lies initially you can actually observe what they 're like , what they do and see whether they fit what they 've said and as time goes on you ha hope to develop some kind of rapport with them so that they might totally understand . |
| 7 | So what I was doing I was coming into it , I was coming in too fast for the gear , not too fast for the corner , but too fast for the gear . |
| 8 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 9 | say , anyway what I was gon na say was erm what was I talking about , hockey ? |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just what I was thinking , ’ said Bobby . |
| 11 | ‘ Just what I was thinking , ’ George replied . |
| 12 | At the risk of sounding pompous — for this was very basic medicine — I thought I ought to explain to Miss Sowerby just what I was thinking of . |
| 13 | But then I began to wonder just what I was going to write . |
| 14 | That 's just what I was going to ask , because it would be September , would n't it ? |
| 15 | Yeah that 's just what I was going to say . |
| 16 | This is just what I was claiming for authority . |
| 17 | That 's just what I was gon na say . |
| 18 | Well it there was n't a recipe to cover just what I was doing with the |
| 19 | ‘ That 's just what I was wondering myself , Gillian . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , if that 's Guido Falcone , he 's definitely not what I was expecting . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That 's not what I was talking about , ’ Maria protested resentfully , just remembering to keep her voice low . |
| 22 | well er , I , I , no , that 's , that 's , that 's not what I was saying , I was saying article eighty five then concerned with , what one could describe as a malign or bad prevention , restriction or distortion |
| 23 | ‘ No doubt you are , but that 's not what I was meaning . |
| 24 | ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said . |
| 25 | I knew exactly what I was looking for , they had to be here somewhere , the one and only pair of knickers left uncontaminated in that disastrous load at the launderette , the stuff that had got washed along with that bargain-price bright-pink non-fast Indian-cotton mini-skirt from C&A . |
| 26 | Upon opening the Carlton Standard 's case , and after being initially overjoyed that I was n't looking at yet another Strat derivative , I must admit that my aesthetic values were backed into a corner while I tried to work out exactly what I was looking at . |
| 27 | Not exactly what I was aiming for . |
| 28 | I am doing exactly what I was trained to do . |
| 29 | ‘ Just exactly what I was thinking , ’ Sandison said . |
| 30 | That 's exactly what I was thinking . ’ |