Example sentences of "[Wh det] he is do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would not venture to say which he is doing in this case . ’ |
| 2 | He takes the understandable view that it is for him to take the first steps in Russia , which he is doing to keep the scientists in Russia . |
| 3 | This means that they must refrain from instructing him about what he is to do … " ( p. 295 ) . |
| 4 | If there were not this evidence that at this point he is only hazily in command of what he is doing , we might ask — though to no purpose , I think — whether Eleanor 's fiddling of her uncle into the see of Canterbury is presented to us for our approval , or the reverse . |
| 5 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 6 | ‘ Your man warned her not to say anything about what he is doing . |
| 7 | However , Sir Lewis has made great efforts to dispel an admitted ‘ deep scepticism ’ at his appointment among the group 's staff of more than 7,000 , and there is growing confidence among them in what he is doing . |
| 8 | He is not altogether happy with what he is doing . |
| 9 | ‘ The best coach is the athlete looking at what he is doing , ’ says Wilson . |
| 10 | Though a diligent search of the green mist that is starting to hide the larch branches fails to find a listening hen , he presumably knows what he is doing . |
| 11 | An outsider , too , can often distinguish between a child ‘ lost ’ in what he is doing and a child intent on ‘ showing ’ what he is doing . |
| 12 | An outsider , too , can often distinguish between a child ‘ lost ’ in what he is doing and a child intent on ‘ showing ’ what he is doing . |
| 13 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 14 | In other words he will be performing that function , and his words and gestures will be selected with the intention of describing to others what he is doing . |
| 15 | We have to see exactly what he is doing by himself , and what he learns by himself — not what you teach him , do you understand ? ’ |
| 16 | Of course , the law only recognizes the patient 's right to self-determination in circumstances in which the patient is both legally competent ( that is , not unconscious or a young child ) and sufficiently lucid to comprehend what he is doing . |
| 17 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
| 18 | David was always really determined to do what he is doing , ’ she says . |
| 19 | A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically . |
| 20 | The important thing for the pastor who sometimes directs and sometimes counsels is to know what he is doing and when . |
| 21 | Once he is in the grip of a real temper tantrum , it is useless to try punishing him , since he is beyond all reason , unable to understand what he is doing or what you are saying . |
| 22 | Library education will be more effective if the student understands what he is doing and why he is doing it — that is , if new facts can be related to existing knowledge . |
| 23 | What he is doing is laying the groundwork for the decisive moment and preparing his getaway . |
| 24 | The person in doubt can choose , but his choice must be made in the full light of knowing what he is doing — disbelieving , not doubting . |
| 25 | Since he does not recognize what he is doing , he blames God rather than his faulty picture , little realizing that God is not like that at all . |
| 26 | Although he felt under pressure — Dustin is an actor who always commits himself totally to what he is doing — he enjoyed having to make the adjustment from Jimmy to John and back again . |
| 27 | Whatever he may think he is doing he can only be discovering , like our romantic traveller , but perhaps much less aware of what he is doing , that in the last resort his desires outweigh his fears . |
| 28 | To drive a London black cab , you have to pass stringent geographical and driving tests , so you can be sure that any London cabbie knows what he is doing and where he is going . |
| 29 | If you focus your eyes on his nose or his fists , you wo n't be able to see what he is doing with the rest of his body . |
| 30 | When at last his parents find him sitting among the teachers in the Temple , they ask him what he is doing . |