Example sentences of "what [pron] be [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , I have n't decided what I 'm going to be doing with Pickerage on Sunday . |
| 2 | ‘ My mother was a virgin on her wedding night , and that 's what I 'm going to be , ’ she said firmly . |
| 3 | So I make appointments with myself , where I 've got , you 'll see there , eight days where for two hours that 's what I 'm going to be doing . |
| 4 | Now I 'm sure you 'd like to know what I 'm gon na be teaching next week apart from this so if you 'd like to read ahead , we 'll be looking at decision-making in organisations , okay ? |
| 5 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
| 6 | this is basically what I 'm gon na be doing |
| 7 | It 's what I was born to be . |
| 8 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 9 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 10 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 11 | It 's just that , well you can imagine what she 's gon na be like . |
| 12 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |
| 13 | Seemingly unrestrained by their director , his principals , Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons , indulge in a perfect orgy of , in actor-speak , ‘ playing the result ’ : their first meeting , before they are even introduced , is a wild farrago of fish-like glances , tortured swallowing and interminable silences , and Malle follows suit , equipping his female lead with a get-up — black leather , gloves , fags , sunglasses , four-inch heels and an Eton crop to make a Brazilian transvestite blink , never mind a research assistant at Sotheby 's , which is what she is meant to be . |
| 14 | Rob said it was appropriate , since that was what she was going to be . |
| 15 | ‘ Along , no doubt , with such minor matters as pay , rations , scope of your responsibilities and what you are going to be called . |
| 16 | He fields a steady stream of enquiries , not only from visitors — ‘ You never know what you are going to be asked next ’ — but from the growing number of researchers aware of his expertise and experience . |
| 17 | when you know more about what you 're expecting to be told it 's easier to remember it . |
| 18 | That is what you 're born to be . ’ |
| 19 | The next questionnaire is designed to help you look at your work and get clear in your head what you 're meant to be doing and how . |
| 20 | That allows them to read in comfort exactly what you 're what you 're gon na be doing there . |
| 21 | and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be |
| 22 | Two hundred and fifty that 's what you 're gon na be sent . |
| 23 | So it 's to be clear in what you 're saying to be able to explain yourself clearly so it 's about clarity |
| 24 | Do you know what you 're going to be doing in five years time ? |
| 25 | The sixty five who said no does it worry you that you do n't know or is that quite exciting that you do n't know what you 're going to be doing ? |
| 26 | I know what you 're going to be like when you 're old , Robert . ’ |
| 27 | Right , let's summarize where we 've got to , and what you 're going to be doing . |
| 28 | Particularly if you 're involved in different activities , different project work , colour coding because it appeals to the right side of your brain , erm , whereas a lot of what you 're going to be doing , I assume , is going to be fairly brained activity , erm , could , could work very well for you . |
| 29 | So , that 's what you 're going to be getting |
| 30 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |