Example sentences of "[be] what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks , money , a penchant for power and a great wardrobe — they 're what it takes to make it to the top . |
| 2 | The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time . |
| 3 | If you are uncomfortable with the idea of attending a local NHS run course , then some form of distance learning package , which involves studying at home with some tutorial support , may be what you need to get you started . |
| 4 | The truth may not be what you want to hear , but I do n't find this situation funny any longer — ’ |
| 5 | It would be normal well it must be what I 've said . |
| 6 | Would that be what I wanted to do ? |
| 7 | There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles |
| 8 | Before discussing the findings in detail , one is worth highlighting : of the 94 applicants , over half , 54% were what we have called migrants . |
| 9 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 10 | The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life . |
| 11 | And those are what we 've thought out for British Rail . |
| 12 | We are what we eat has become such a cliché that we rarely stop to think about it nowadays . |
| 13 | Bold assertions are what we have come to expect from visiting Americans of dubious pedigree but they come to Biggs almost as an afterthought . |
| 14 | These are what we want to do , you know , work hard and they do this sort of thing . |
| 15 | They have a ring round their neck and are what they call walking toads . |
| 16 | These are what I 've got on the disks you see . |
| 17 | But the exclusivity principle does not apply to all such applications : some are what I have called hybrid judicial review actions and such actions need not , but may , be brought under Ord. 53 . |
| 18 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
| 19 | As one young manager put it : ‘ The only things I know about the army are what I have seen on television ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So these are what you 've brought me , ’ he said , as he moved round the four greys admiringly . |
| 21 | Those have you th those are what you 've dropped you say ? |
| 22 | If duties are what you must or should do , wishes are what you want to do . |
| 23 | I 'm here to do a job of work and if dressing conservatively and ignoring his attempts at seductive banter are what it takes to remind him of the fact , so be it . ’ |
| 24 | If dumps like this are what she has to put up with , then up with this she 'll put . |
| 25 | ‘ If I had been what you 'd imagined , I 'd look like an assassin , and you 'd say I was too obvious . ’ |
| 26 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 27 | That s what I want to see . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've no objection to going — if that s what you want to do . ’ |
| 29 | That 's what they 've made the old Anglesey Road hospital into . |
| 30 | They welcomed John McCarthy and Jill Morrell like heroes and to many that 's what they 've become . |