Example sentences of "what it [be] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the new series looks good ( with one of its highlights promising to be the small-screen debut of Paul Whitehead ) and he has at least three other projects on the go , Harry Enfield still has n't figured out what it is that he does exactly . |
| 2 | It is not perfectly clear from what Mace says what it is that he wants to contrast with my body as it appears to others . |
| 3 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 4 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 5 | is to discuss wi with the client what it is that he |
| 6 | Even before he was fully awake he felt the oppression of unpleasant memory , the threat of worse to come , although he could n't remember exactly what it was that he remembered . |
| 7 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 8 | For Friend I would — if I only knew what it was that he wants me to do or be . |
| 9 | Once again she wondered what it was that he had done in the war to make Anthony so angry . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps — ’ But he stopped , and Anne was left wondering what it was that he had nearly said . |
| 11 | He could hang around , of course , for the following hour or two , pretending to know what it was that he or anybody else should seek to discover . |
| 12 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |