Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pron] what [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The only wooden stairs that never seemed to make any noise were those inch-thick slabs in modern public buildings ; house stairs always took pleasure in announcing to everybody what you were doing . |
| 2 | Minimise this possibility by defining to yourself what you should see if your performance is correct . |
| 3 | He 's speaking to it what he 's doing with that . |
| 4 | How many times God must be saying to us what he said in anticipating Israel 's doubts after the exile : ‘ Even if it may seem impossible to the survivors of this nation on that day , will it also seem impossible to me ? ’ |
| 5 | I want , I 'm just saying to you what I want to do I actually want to consolidate my own qualifications |
| 6 | But the horror was only doing to him what it always did . |
| 7 | No fear of your partner doing to you what he did to Maria Luisa , because you have n't a heart . |
| 8 | You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ? |
| 9 | There were other acts by then like Morecambe and Wise and they were doing to us what we 'd done to others in our time . |
| 10 | He kept repeating to himself what his Mother had drummed into him as a child . |
| 11 | He tried to extract every detail from his memory , quoting to himself what he had said to Cranston earlier in the day : ‘ If there 's a problem , logically there must be a solution . ’ |