Example sentences of "[adv] what it [be] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spilling the knots from one 's entrails out onto paper is n't likely to make a poem or story that others will want to read , but many writers do have to go through the ‘ spilling ’ process in order to know just what it is they have to hammer into shape . |
| 2 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 3 | ‘ Bring her in to me , I 'll soon sort out just what it is she wants , ’ Emily said , rising to her feet and shaking the creases from her crinoline gown . |
| 4 | Like UK language schools , ELT publishers , particularly the smaller ones , may need to examine exactly what it is they have to offer . |
| 5 | ‘ You even get a bed , until you decide exactly what it is you want to do from here . |
| 6 | just exactly what it is you want to think about |
| 7 | Yep , that just about sums up what we do on the way to the cairn , hence the use of the word climb in trying to convey to a companion exactly what it is you expect them to do when they get out of the car . |
| 8 | ‘ And I still ca n't work out exactly what it is you do … ’ |
| 9 | Edwina Currie had rejected his advances ( ‘ What sort of girl do you think I am ? ’ ) while Emma Nicholson had not caught exactly what it was he had proposed . |
| 10 | ‘ Can you do something for me ? ’ she asked without preamble , and went on to explain quickly what it was she wanted done . |
| 11 | Well I think that rather depends on saying fairly concisely what it is we mean by science . |
| 12 | Well I think that rather depends on saying fairly concisely what it is we mean by science . |
| 13 | It seemed to her now that all she had ever had had been the dream of having dreams ; the goal of having goals one day , once she had made her mind up what it was she wanted . |
| 14 | At last , incredibly , I 'm going to find out what it is I 've been missing … wanting ! |
| 15 | Shit , I ca n't work out what it is you do believe in … |
| 16 | An' then we 'ave a look at Bill 's book to check out what it was we got up to . |
| 17 | And that involved talking to the client to find out what it was they wanted ? |
| 18 | I 'll just have to work out what it was he said he wanted . |
| 19 | Something important was eluding her , and until she 'd worked out what it was she did n't want to demand an explanation from him . |
| 20 | Well what it is you 've used it all last year have n't you ? |
| 21 | But er well what it is I 've got a mouth problem . |
| 22 | He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home . |
| 23 | Rarely will they define precisely what it is they wish to find out about dinosaurs or railways , etc . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's what you get in this house , ’ he said , without explaining precisely what it was you got . |