Example sentences of "[verb] to [Wh det] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in those large congregations all the bidding prayers are spontaneous , beautifully prayed and with everyone obviously listening to what was being said . |
| 2 | Tallis moved quietly round the house and came up behind the hunter ; she sat on the rush matting and hugged her knees , listening to what was being said . |
| 3 | We are often so anxious to talk , to express our views or to make our point , that we often fail to listen to what is being said to us . |
| 4 | You need to make the effort to put your energy into the task in hand and to listen to what is being said . |
| 5 | As these passages demonstrate , the passive consumption of information and oral commentary is contrasted with characteristically written forms of language use which encourage intersubjective communication by forcing people to imagine , in the case of the journal , what others are doing or , in the case of the letter , how they will react to what is being written to them . |
| 6 | And those date from a nineteen ninety one base , as compared to what was being forecast from the nineteen eighty nine . |
| 7 | And this time , without the distraction of her friends giggling in the background , she actually listened to what was being said , becoming absorbed in the detached examination of her character by a stranger . |
| 8 | Well , I ca n't let you listen to what 's being said in the entire house without having access to the entire house . |