Example sentences of "that be [Wh det] i [be] " in BNC.

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1 Charlie , who did n't have a girlfriend at the time , hit back : ‘ I am an actor and doing scenes like that is what I am paid to do .
2 That is what I am escaping from , that is the alternative .
3 That is what I am being paid to find out .
4 That is what I am concentrating on now , ’ he said .
5 Yes then , if you wish to call me a spy , then that is what I am .
6 That is what I am tempted to suggest , ’ Miss Honey said cautiously .
7 That is what I am going to do , Comrade Commandant .
8 However , that is what I am paid for as a full- time member of staff .
9 You fell in love with an illegitimate girl who carries her father 's name by grace and favour , not by right — never mind that I was not meant to be illegitimate ; that is what I am .
10 That is what I am concerned with , and that is how I have measured the application .
11 ‘ I adopted what I conceived to be a classless accent , ’ he said , ‘ as that is what I thought Byron ought to be and that is what I am .
12 Yeah , exactly that is what I 'm sort of
13 Well that that is what I 'm solely here for .
14 Let them do that is what I 'm saying .
15 That is what I was after from the start , he wrote .
16 That is what I was trying to say . ’
17 That is what I was dreaming about when I was young .
18 That is what I was going to do ’ . ’
19 Faldo said : ‘ When you are my height you have a tendency to go down too far on the ball and that is what I was doing .
20 Er the Noble Baroness is is right erm we do notice that where a consultant is in charge the difference is very great indeed , I 'm afraid I do n't have the figure but I will certainly give it to her , er but also we know that where there are er hospital discharge managers where senior nurses are bed managers , the difference is really quite considerable er and that is what I was saying in terms of managing the process .
21 That is what I was going to ask you
22 That is what I was told .
23 I mean , but that that is what I was pointing out and we have some , say you have somebody qualified to go and visit each patient
24 That 's what I am , let's face it .
25 I 'm a good Cath'lic , that 's what I am . ’
26 ‘ There 's nothing I 've done that I 'm ashamed of , Cleg , ’ she said softly , ‘ my father brought me up to be respectable and that 's what I am . ’
27 So that 's what I am .
28 Sometimes I think it 's pathetic that I have to deal with this simplification of who I am , and then other times I think , that 's it , that 's what I am , what I read , that 's who I am . ’
29 I 'm her godson , that 's what I am .
30 That 's what I am about .
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