Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now by way of introduction to this , we had some deep thinking last night after we 'd concluded our discussion , and I have to preface what I 'm going to say , certainly for Mr 's benefit that it 's the if question , the if question . |
| 2 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |
| 3 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 4 | Problem No. 5 : The neighbours , wanting to know what I am doing . |
| 5 | Stapleton seemed to know what I was thinking , and said : ‘ You may think this a lonely , strange place to live , but the moors are very interesting , and we enjoy it here . |
| 6 | I went in to this fella er er er he seemed to know what I was talking about to start with |
| 7 | They wanted to know what I was doing about getting another job and all was serene . |
| 8 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 9 | The first time I was too young to know what I was doing and we split up after only seven months . |
| 10 | They would ask me for the pass I did n't have , then they would want to know what I was doing there . |
| 11 | Needless to say , since the notion that you did not ask anyone over-probing questions would have been regarded by him as an absurdity , he wanted to know what I was going to back . |
| 12 | natural and I 'm and I never was , but I like to know what I 'm voting for and I like to tell the people who I 'm responsible for what they are voting for . |
| 13 | I want to know what I 'm talking about . |
| 14 | Now I 'm sure you 'd like to know what I 'm gon na be teaching next week apart from this so if you 'd like to read ahead , we 'll be looking at decision-making in organisations , okay ? |
| 15 | ‘ Sir Danvers Carew was my client , but you are my client too , and I want to know what I 'm doing . |
| 16 | ‘ You could try to guess what I 'm wearing . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps you have a pen and paper with you , or will you be able to remember what I 'm going to tell you ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I had to express what I was feeling . |
| 19 | that 's because , you know , I 'm better than everyone else so that 's why everyone has to see wha everyone , everyone has to hear what I 'm saying |
| 20 | ‘ You want to hear what I 'm feeling tonight ? |
| 21 | To put what I am saying in more concrete terms : the dialect poetry of the Lancashire miner , say , is taken as a product of his particular cultural experience , which is different from the experience of public schoolboys or Rastafarians . |
| 22 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 23 | One has to be very clear-headed to do what I am doing . |
| 24 | I have to do what I 'm told . |
| 25 | ‘ All I want to do is to do what I 'm doing , but do it better . ’ |
| 26 | The loss of my daughter Suzy gave me good reason to do what I 'm doing and I have nothing to lose . |
| 27 | ‘ But , Mr Stevens , you do not appear to believe what I am saying . |
| 28 | ‘ I want you to believe what I 'm going to tell you , Mr. Preston . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The only times you ever make any effort to think , ’ says Phil , ‘ are when you 're trying to understand what I 'm saying . |
| 30 | It was n't her reaction that I was wary of , it 's just that she does n't even know how she made her children so how was she going to understand what I was trying to tell her ! |