Example sentences of "[verb] what [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 2 | But — ’ she turned to him , eyes brimming with tears , ‘ — you do n't know what it 's been like , trying every day to live a lie … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ How do you know what it 's been like ? ’ she accused . |
| 4 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 5 | you do n't even know what he 's been in |
| 6 | That would n't be easy ; even now he was beginning to remember what it had been like when he 'd been small and afraid of the dark , unable to sleep without a nightlight . |
| 7 | Make them do what we know is for their benefit as well as our own , and all difficulties in China are at an end . ’ |
| 8 | I imagined that , having got what you 've been after all week , you 'd be quite happy to agree … ’ |
| 9 | I said you know what she 's been like with this young girl at college you thought |
| 10 | You know what it 's been like ever since we left the Store . ’ |
| 11 | She is a much more down-to-earth person than Madeline Vesey Neroni , and supports her husband through thick and thin , always doing what she feels is in his best interest . |
| 12 | At least , he must have known what she said was in it . |
| 13 | There are builders , architects , bankers , colleagues , consultants , and coaches ( with whom it is possible to share jokes and moments of relaxation , knowing what we have been through together and may have to face again , at any moment ) to see . |
| 14 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 15 | ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ? |
| 16 | The only way he can recall what he does is by doing it , literally ‘ going through the motions ’ . |
| 17 | Never mind what we think is in chromosomes — if babies can learn to talk and listen , then some sort of knowledge must be in there somewhere . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't think what it 's been like . |
| 19 | He understands what I have been through … " |
| 20 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 21 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 22 | One of the Inverkeithing officers , the tide waiter , was ‘ threatened to be removed or broke ’ if he joined Provost Cunningham in the burgh elections , a sad state of affairs , when , as Cunningham complained , ‘ your Lordship knows what I do is from no other view than to serve the D[uke] of A[rgyl]e & your lordship 's interest , and have his grace 's order for doing so ’ . |