Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAUSE D' you not want to know what it is ? |
| 2 | Do you want to know who it is before I go out ? |
| 3 | So I decided : if anyone does come , I want to see who it is before I show myself . |
| 4 | I ca n't wait to see what it is . ’ |
| 5 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 6 | ‘ Want to know what it is ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He wants to know what it is like in a jet , ’ said the Thing . |
| 8 | Wilson is a simple man like most policemen , show him a body and he wants to know whose it is , how it died and who 's responsible . |
| 9 | The most he has done has shown what it is to approach things from a moral point of view , he has not shown that only one particular sort of maxim can coherently be universalised in each case . |
| 10 | First , one has to identify what it is that undergraduates actually study . |
| 11 | He has to do what it is morally possible for him to do in the circumstances . |
| 12 | This history should be looked on as my attempt to explore the history of the College so as best to understand why it has become what it is today . |
| 13 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |
| 14 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 15 | When the figure turns , say ‘ May peace be with you ’ , and request to hear who it is and why it is banging at your door . |
| 16 | There are so many diseases that can be helped by the Alexander Technique because , whatever problem we may have , the remedy is always the same : find out what it is that is causing the problem , stop doing whatever it is and then you will soon start to feel better . |
| 17 | Very few of us stop to ask what it is that is pulling them together . |
| 18 | This involves deciding what it is you are looking for before you start general reading , and , equally important , assessing why you need to read particular works or sources you intend to consult . |
| 19 | ‘ My men are outside — they 're going to see what it is . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The conference is waiting to discover what it is she intends to do , now that she has finally arrived in Brighton . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd like to know what it is . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm sorry , and I 'm waiting to hear what it is . |
| 23 | The parents will begin to identify what it is that irritates them so much . |
| 24 | Look look who it is . |
| 25 | Erm but again you have got to decide what it is you want out of your retirement because you 're the boss and it 's no good moaning when you 're into your retirement that it does n't suit you because you 've planned it , you 've made the decisions and therefore it 's up to you to alter whatever you do n't like . |
| 26 | She continues to say that there is one kind she does not like and that she is going to convey what it is by a process of thought transfer . |
| 27 | I was just going to eat whatever it is they have and then go to sleep . |
| 28 | ‘ To refine these further by attempting to specify what it is hoped that a Mosotho child should know , feel and have the skills to do as a result of a full Primary education and at each stage during that education . |
| 29 | If one considers the difference between my father at such moments and a figure such as Mr Jack Neighbours even with the best of his technical flourishes , I believe one may begin to distinguish what it is that separates a ‘ great ’ butler from a merely competent one . |
| 30 | He is employed doing whatever it is he does by a Bank whose caring dirigeants wear pin-striped underpants and will look after him until he retires . |