Example sentences of "what [pron] [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am putting before the House are serious considerations about the balance between the rights of individuals , which may be damaged in the course of a case but where the record can subsequently be put straight , the rights of those who are before the courts , accused , to deploy their defence , and the rights of the public at large to scrutinise that process . |
| 2 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 3 | I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring . |
| 4 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 5 | It will be objected that love-making necessarily includes an irrational , a Dionysian , element that is obscured by what I am saying at the moment . |
| 6 | I mean , maybe what I 'm hearing from the committee is that we take it back and look at the criteria and the ground rules . |
| 7 | a little portion of what I 'm paying for the heel . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never hurt anyone with a challenge or anything like that , so I 'm in control of what I 'm doing on the pitch . |
| 9 | I 'm concentrating on what I 'm doing at the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm quite happy with what I 'm doing at the moment , ’ she says , ‘ but obviously , I 'd be interested … ’ |
| 11 | You , you might think , ooh I do n't really know what I 'm doing at the moment er perhaps I could n't do it on my own . |
| 12 | I want you to ask me what I 'm doing in the afternoons . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I 'm finding round the country day after day , ’ he shouted above the traffic . |
| 14 | Well that 's what I 'm saying about the image of the drinking er I guarantee you could as you know as you say you could be in a pub all afternoon all evening all night with maybe twenty people having a music session and ten of them might n't be drinking at all . |
| 15 | So er just because it looks like seduction does n't mean it 's not abuse , I suppose that 's what I 'm saying in the in the in a nutshell . |
| 16 | I had no idea how much there was in there , but I reckoned it was probably what I was owed by the Scamp family plus a few expenses . |
| 17 | I first started to write at school and I 'd charge a few pence for each story — you should have seen what I was writing for the girls . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 19 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 20 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 21 | I ca n't recall what I was paid for the film . |
| 22 | I could n't square what I was doing with the view of the world I have tried to transmit to my pubescent son : sex is a wonderful thing but it should be part of a loving relationship . |
| 23 | Well it there was n't a recipe to cover just what I was doing with the |
| 24 | wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh . |
| 25 | It kept me awake at nights , it made me forget what I was doing during the day . |
| 26 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 27 | Afterwards , he got me and asked what I was doing in the doorway with Symington . |
| 28 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 29 | This goes back to what I was saying about the ‘ fellowship ’ of conferences and similar events and how important it is for people to enjoy themselves and make contacts . |
| 30 | She 'll understand your anger and stop what she 's doing for the time being , but that wo n't stop her doing it again when you ca n't see . |