Example sentences of "be [v-ing] what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , absolutely so questions er a very definite way of involving the audience and again it gives a measure of feedback does n't it because if you get the right answer you know that they are with you and you know they are understanding what you have to say . |
| 2 | B. It 's good , you see , that you 're remembering what you 've read . |
| 3 | If you 're not robbing , you 're selling what you 've robbed , or getting stoned out of your mind . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect you 're wondering what you 've got . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ I am doing what I have to do . ’ |
| 7 | Throughout my presentation ( and hopefully other presentations at this conference ) I hope that you will be applying what I like to call the " so what test " . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'm do n't want to be believing what they do write in they newspapers ma'am ’ , exclaimed the sergeant , but his visitor was not listening . |
| 9 | ‘ They have to be wondering what they 've got to do to put a lid on the rumours . ’ |
| 10 | THERE is never a good time to kiss £100,000 goodbye — but with Christmas round the corner , Colin McRae must be wondering what he has done to upset St Stephen . |
| 11 | I 'm doing what I have to do in preparation for writing an article about some swanking brand-new media/cultural/trivial/not necessarily fashionable/musical/ now-and-then medical development . |
| 12 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
| 13 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 14 | Interestingly , Dr James Young Simpson of Edinburgh University , who was one of the first to use chloroform , flatly denied any of these side effects , and said the doctors were seeing what they wanted to see . |
| 15 | In this case it is open to question whether the authors of the limited number of extant documents were writing about contemporary events or were recording what they believed to have happened , based on oral tradition . |
| 16 | The advisers did not always accept these arguments and pointed to the fact that they were comparing what they had seen with other schools . |
| 17 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 18 | difficulty in working out whether she 's understanding what we 've said now in the way of instructions until it comes back . |
| 19 | He 's doing what he wants to do . |
| 20 | The trouble is , you see , if Christopher 's doing what he wants to do , you 're doing what you all want to do and then both both of you crash in the middle it 's nobody 's fault particularly is it ? |
| 21 | The key to successful time management is knowing what you want to achieve , how much it means to you , and how much of your time and energy you are prepared to devote to it . |
| 22 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 23 | She says he was doing what he wanted to do . |
| 24 | Caroline was not only learning , she was doing what she 'd wanted to do , channelling her energy into something positive . |
| 25 | The girl was doing what she wanted to do . |
| 26 | But he was studying what he wanted to know , and would become a rich farmer in time . |