Example sentences of "[prep] what i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may need something stronger than tea after what I 'm going to tell you . ’ |
| 2 | Rather I will draw out my criticisms of what I am calling ‘ theoretical reformism ’ to the point where the need for more radical approaches like Spender 's can be appreciated more clearly . |
| 3 | Wood ( 1978 , 1980 ) raises the interesting question of whether double dissociations are really a good sign of what I am calling complementary modular organization . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 6 | Nothing of what I am going to attempt to say should in any way be read as denying the value of psychoanalysis nor as implying that the Church has not been , and continues to be , deeply misogynistic in ways that are damaging both to women and to the Church itself . |
| 7 | I am aware that much of what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light . |
| 8 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 9 | Yet , while other factors ( such as structure ) cause most of the breakdowns , it is undeniable that your faulty perceptions of what I am saying , and my faulty perceptions of what you are saying , can cause a whole chain of problems . |
| 10 | About individual differences , much of what I am saying here may not sound too bad , but many people will want to treat sex differences quite otherwise . |
| 11 | Surely I am to know of what I am accused , besides wrenching your brother-in-law from his wife ? ’ |
| 12 | But the case where , choosing my words carefully with full consciousness of what I am doing , I deliberately pronounce on the nature of my present sensory state is not one of them . |
| 13 | The dreadfulness of what I am doing to her , what I am going to do to her makes me feel ill . |
| 14 | Er most of the accounts of what I 'm discussing er are pretty well near fiction . |
| 15 | ‘ Christ , is n't it bad enough that I have to scrape for every bloody penny to do a piece of vital research , without being forced to turn my project into a circus for a lot of gawping idiots who wo n't have the least comprehension of what I 'm trying to do ? |
| 16 | They do n't have the slightest understanding of what I 'm trying to do . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Although , of course , you wo n't need most of what I 'm telling you , ’ he grinned . |
| 18 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 19 | It 's you who needs to know the seriousness of what I 'm saying , Richard . |
| 20 | ‘ But if you 're disillusioned now it 's partly because of what I 'm talking about ; the radicalism of Thatcher that seemed so fresh . |
| 21 | An example , er , of what I 'm talking about , which I think shows this very nicely , and is , is something I wanted to mention , because it 's important in itself , is the shifts in Freud 's views on anxiety . |
| 22 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 23 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 24 | If I can give you an example of what I 'm talking about , part of the information we receive of course is erm surface , weather reports taken by weather observers at all sorts of places across the face of the earth . |
| 25 | It 's just because I 'm so ashamed of what I 'm doing , yet there 's no way I can stop . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never hurt anyone with a challenge or anything like that , so I 'm in control of what I 'm doing on the pitch . |
| 27 | I do n't think of what I 'm doing as gender specific . |
| 28 | ‘ He does n't much approve of what I 'm doing . ’ |
| 29 | So that , this is when fractions come into it and everybody starts getting a bit ooh I 'm not very sure of what I 'm doing here because it 's not , you know , it 's not obvious , it 's not very real |
| 30 | Er , but we will in the latter half of what I 'm doing , er , come on to the work organiser . |