Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what it [be] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet vagueness in stating the task or problem can often create resistance or a failure to accept the delegated task simply because the subordinate is not entirely clear what it is you want done . |
| 2 | After two years of going to Kenya I 've only just realised what it is you 're supposed to do — walk ! |
| 3 | It makes me feel insecure — not understanding what it is they want so much . |
| 4 | Remember that you are your own best critic and only you can finally decide what it is you wanted to say . |
| 5 | She frowned , not knowing what it was she was looking for , then turned back , looking at him . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 7 | To this day I can not recall what it was I said to him . |
| 8 | He discovered , for example , that laboratory technicians at Fawley were carrying out chemical tests without really understanding what it was they were doing . |
| 9 | I still do n't really see what it is you 're getting at though . ’ |
| 10 | Anyway , I now recall what it was I am about to tell you . |
| 11 | We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’ |
| 12 | And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them . |
| 13 | I still did n't know what it was he was trying to tell me |
| 14 | You may be fumbling in the dark — both literally and metaphorically -but you might as well know what it is you might find ! |
| 15 | Most believers , it is likely , find it difficult much of the time even to remember what it is they are supposed to believe . |
| 16 | Cos it 's not a Polo , it 's a Jetta , it 's the one with the boot but if you ca n't remember what it is you can either , did you know the difference between a car with a boot and a car with a hatchback ? |
| 17 | The carbonate I ca n't remember what it is I 'm getting confused I |
| 18 | So the other one is I do n't remember what it is I wanted but I think I 'll go in to erm and erm |
| 19 | I do n't understand what it is you want , or what you have to do with Spiderglass , or even how you got me away from them . |
| 20 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 21 | I ai n't bothered what it is I do n't think . |
| 22 | The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on . |
| 23 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 24 | I ca n't imagine what it is you want . ’ |
| 25 | I 've quite forgotten what it was you asked . ’ |
| 26 | Feargal , I do n't in the least understand what it is you 're trying to find out . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In a society where the image has virtually taken over every aspect of life , people are tired of having someone else decide what it is they will see . |