Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 2 | And here I would like to quote the Levitical ruling on childbirth for it highlights what I hope is now becoming clear , i.e. the perceived gender differentials in blood and the connection between male circumcision and the female blood cycle : |
| 3 | ‘ Stephanie has what I think is known as an … infatuation for me . |
| 4 | Later in the book , I shall describe different manoeuvres , explaining what I think are the important factors . |
| 5 | Close friends and family — those who really care about you — will be happy to comply but you must remember to tell them that you would like them to indicate what they think are your weaknesses as well as your strengths or they will simply say nice things about you . |
| 6 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 7 | Hamish McLeod from the University of Edinburgh will describe what he has been doing and discuss what teachers might do . |
| 8 | Mistakenly supposing that their moral beliefs are innately given , people are liable to continue to accept what they have been taught as young children . |
| 9 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 10 | Erm , having looked at all that , I think what the issue really boils down to essentially is the willingness of the County Council and I suppose the panel , having heard what er the debate , to accept what I think is really a modest level of flexibility er er requested by the District Council . |
| 11 | Actually give people chance to try what we 've been talking about . |
| 12 | But the others could well do a lot of blaming when they realise what you 've been doing . ’ |
| 13 | I now realise what I have been missing , it is a very good magazine for knitters and I shall in future be buying it very month . |
| 14 | " I expect what you need is a good curetting . " |
| 15 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 16 | The colonel wanted to know what I had been doing and who I had talked to . |
| 17 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 18 | I have to write what I 've been talking about . |
| 19 | The next morning the newspapers headlined what I thought was a completely different ‘ anti-Europe ’ speech . |
| 20 | Martin Richmond , from Chalford in Gloucestershire , and a friend from London , pedalled through the Himalyas to establish what they believed was a new world altitude cycling record . |
| 21 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |
| 22 | The instruments of war , the machinery that was necessary to prosecute what I think was , if any war could be just , a truly just war , these implements and machines are tremendously important but they are passing , they are transitory . |
| 23 | You seen what they 've been doing ? |
| 24 | And in a nut shell , it is our case , we say the police , what the police did was reasonable in the circumstances and indeed to go any further and say what they did was necessary in the circumstances . |
| 25 | Well I , I , what I 'll do is I write off to them , and say what I do is , ca n't remember where , where we bought it , I think it was Comet |
| 26 | Tempers exploded at breakfast time after Rosemary and Carssier who had feuded for a month accidentally bumped into each other between two beds and their slanging match to violence when Rosemary shouted what you need is a man ! |
| 27 | Yeah that guy 's chest looks what he 's been through . |
| 28 | " We are agreed on these points — I do not know what we have been arguing about . " |
| 29 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 30 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |