Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just in case there 's any more of what we was giving them . |
| 2 | They may think that they are realistically aware of what they are letting themselves in for and what they need to know about each other 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 3 | I think that 's an implication of what they were accusing him of , but were they bringing him to trial for . |
| 4 | When I again became conscious of what they were saying I heard Lili arguing . |
| 5 | She is silently waiting for me now to understand the nature of what she is offering me . |
| 6 | It , it 's a case of what she 's letting herself in for if we strike this out . |
| 7 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
| 8 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 9 | ‘ Although , of course , you wo n't need most of what I 'm telling you , ’ he grinned . |
| 10 | I did n't know how much of what I was saying he understood . |
| 11 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 12 | But then , I mean a actually I mean as I said , Lesley ai n't that bothered because of what he 's giving her |
| 13 | ‘ As soon as he realised the serious nature of what he was doing he stopped and apologised . ’ |
| 14 | Allowing that , being feelings , they are , more accurately speaking , in my mind , this use of ‘ perceive ’ , though to us a rather strained one , must seem to the Cartesian to be the paradigm for philosophically responsible talk of what it is to perceive something . |
| 15 | Perhaps we should launch a new investigation into what it is to underline what we underline . |
| 16 | Well , they 're right , but with what we were doing we wanted the containment of a mono mix to be even more contained . |
| 17 | Inanimate matter does n't answer back and if you get fed up with what you 're doing you throw it down the sink or get rid of it . |
| 18 | We do n't know upon what he 's basing what he 's saying , whether it 's on his own particular memories of school , whether it 's been informed by , department of education officials in England , or Scottish education officials up here , and I think any up , any where somebody , something as crucial teachi , any job , er , where somebody who 's uninformed is making pronouncements which are considered to be sufficiently important that they 're read out on th , on the six o'clock news and in the papers |
| 19 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 20 | But it does sound from what you 're telling us now that it is actually directly related and to recall my original question , was it related to programme to which I had the answer no , erm what you said . |
| 21 | Now this other person is trying to trying to change the conversation , trying to take you away from what you 're trying what you want done . |
| 22 | In saying that go over , erm obviously I 'm all for that , but in terms of sort of holding on to what they 're doing I just had written down to mention that you know , we did n't have some sort of mechanism to , to share you know |
| 23 | I do n't know what it is , but it 's different , bringing her up to what it was bringing them up . |
| 24 | Oh he said you did n't , you did n't listen to what I was telling you , did you ? |
| 25 | ‘ Listen to what I 'm telling you , Fran … really listen . |
| 26 | well I was saying for experiments and that , do n't you thing , just listen to what I 'm telling you was in the paper ! |
| 27 | if you hit something twice as big to what you 're hitting it 'll go twice as fast as it does with a snooker ball . |
| 28 | Alan what I I do n't know the answer to what you 're proposing I really do n't know the answer and er I mean I can only go on the , my , my experiences and my experiences are I 've never ever consciously or not aware of ever having bought any as a result of |
| 29 | The creditor may have done enough by superintending himself the execution of the document and by attempting to assure himself by means of questions or explanation that she knows to what she is committing herself . |
| 30 | What woman in her right mind would choose what she 'd left in Milan to what he was offering her here , in Rome ? |