Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] what be " in BNC.
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1 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
2 | At this point I must consider what is meant by ‘ tariff ’ in this context . |
3 | I must find what is your illness first , yes ? ’ |
4 | I do n't just say it , because time is valuable and I should explain what 's happening in the region but I think it 's also very important to convey this to you after your years and decades of solidarity with the liberation struggle . |
5 | ‘ If I am to help on this , then I should know what 's going on . |
6 | Life is earnest and , as a responsible individual , I should know what is going on . |
7 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
8 | When I 'm happy with them , I 'll do what 's necessary . ’ |
9 | ‘ I 'll see what 's in the ice-box . |
10 | So anyway , this bloke says oh I 'll chase it up and I 'll see what 's going on , he says I 'll give you a ring in morning . |
11 | I 'll see what 's new and what 's old and what |
12 | Yeah , I 'll see him and I 'm , I 'll probably see him tomorrow and I 'll have I 'll see what 's about . |
13 | Yeah , I 'll see what 's about . |
14 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
15 | Current medical technology could never make me a man in full fact , but I could have what was available . |
16 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
17 | But a minute later I could see what was going to happen and I began thinking every which way of how to change the subject . |
18 | In general I shall recognize what is , not what ought to be ; but certainly I ought to be aware of what I am trying to do , why I want it , how to do it , whether it can be done . |
19 | When I write of consciousness I shall mean what is often called self-consciousness , rather than awareness of sensations or perceptions . |
20 | I know what that man owes to Harry , and what to me , and I have kept the account , and in good time I shall take what is due . |
21 | ‘ I will have what 's mine , Shannon Lea — but I wo n't take it . |
22 | I can tell what 's going to happen before it happens . |
23 | Perhaps I could at least stay until she wakes up and I can explain what 's happening . ’ |
24 | I can make what is perhaps not a usual boast in Scotland : I can claim that some of my best friends are Conservatives . |
25 | So , I can understand what 's going on , but it 's like when I saw it , I saw the R S C production , |
26 | I can imagine what 's going through your minds at this point . |
27 | Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing . |
28 | I can see what 's troubling Fiver ; though he 'll get over it , I dare say . |
29 | I can see what 's gon na happen . |
30 | And you 'll be and you 'd be thinking , Ah I can see where he 's going now yeah I can see what 's coming up next he 's going to now he 's he 's integrated once |