Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say , ‘ 74D in for refreshments ’ — recorded in a book and in that half hour , I had to make my tea , eat my sandwiches , wash my cup , put on my coat or whatever I was wearing — cape if it was raining — and be out for that half hour . |
| 2 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 3 | I was n't sure where I was — or what I was doing . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I really do n't know who I am or what I 'm doing here , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 6 | It will be objected that what I am suggesting will be the death of ‘ standards ’ in schools , and especially in the sixth form . |
| 7 | Many of the men are black or half-caste descendants of freed Saharan slaves and I feel that what I am watching is not Islamic at root but a practice brought by their ancestors and grafted on to the religion . |
| 8 | I realise that what I am describing , people divided in themselves , is said to characterise mental illness , and is the absolute opposite of our idea of emotional integration . |
| 9 | I consulted the programme and discovered that what I was regarding was the rose garden of an English country house , circa 1922 . |
| 10 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 11 | Something had changed , because I had suddenly realised that what I was trying to do was impossible . |
| 12 | For instance , it 's perfectly obvious that what I was trying to do for my clients was patch up their lives and their relationships in a way that I 'd been unable to do for my parents . |
| 13 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 14 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 15 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 16 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 17 | I 'm not saying that what I 'm saying is that that we must all have at the back of our minds a a sort of considered opinion of what 's |
| 18 | ‘ I knew that whatever I was producing , I was meant to have : that somehow we had chosen each other . |
| 19 | It is bigger than what I am doing to me … |
| 20 | There must be a better way of spending life than what I 'm doing . ’ |
| 21 | Better than what I 'm doing any of it though . |
| 22 | than what I was paying for it . |
| 23 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 24 | Take away the eight thousand existing P H I cover , absolutely crackamondo , leaves us with the nice round sum of ten thousand pounds , and what I am going to do now then folks ? |
| 25 | The argument presented here is that in the latter part of the twentieth century more and more capitalists have come to believe that their objective interests are best served through transnational practices , as evidenced by the phenomenal growth of the presence and influence of the TNCs outside the hegemon countries , and what I am describing as transnational capitalist classes . |
| 26 | It is a lovely play and I am sorry to be leaving , but this is a very strenuous role , and what I am doing is perfectly normal . |
| 27 | Plus within my environmental thing I would like to be able to see if we can get four areas within the school and what I was thinking about , not the big areas outside in the gardens etcetera but do you know as you walk along from our corridor up past the dining hall and there 's that little bit of enclosed space |
| 28 | And what I was playing was an official competition . |
| 29 | It was one of my assets , and what I was hired for . " |
| 30 | I became conscious of where I was and what I was doing so I quickly stood up and dried my eyes . |