Example sentences of "not [verb] what [be] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the organisers , John Tipple , of the Socialist Workers Party , said : ‘ We just can not trust what is being said . |
| 2 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 3 | ‘ At any given point , if the audience does not understand what is being said , they will get the atmosphere of what is going on , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Becker , on the other hand , who tends to use a more open-ended style of interviewing , has argued that the interviewer should sometimes ‘ play dumb ’ and pretend not to understand what is being said , in order to prompt the respondent into saying more . |
| 5 | The client may not hear what is being said because it is something hard to accept . |
| 6 | Meredith could not hear what was being said but she could more or less guess at it . |
| 7 | She had put her hands before her face , and by now the whole room was watching them , although most could not hear what was being said . |
| 8 | Joseph , unable to follow the French , waited in anguish , not knowing what was being said . |
| 9 | She could n't hear what was being said , but she saw that three caravans were standing inside the field by the gate and that several rough-looking men were raising their fists and shouting at Farmer Yatton , Angela 's father , who was ordering them out . |
| 10 | We could n't hear what was being said but the large man was bending over Bogie 's table and poking him in the chest . |