Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |
| 2 | ‘ I have to know what you 're being asked for . |
| 3 | It 's this stupid leaving me to guess what I 'm being nagged about . |
| 4 | The voice at the other end was plainly over-excited and it took him a minute to disentangle what he was being told . |
| 5 | Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun . |
| 6 | Basically , the expression means to use your wits to assess what you are being told . |