Example sentences of "about what [pron] [am/are] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the owner of one of the sites you 've been turning over , could you be more specific about what they 're looking for ? |
| 2 | In all these matters the more you know about the media and the more you know about what they 're looking for and the more you know about techniques and the more you can develop things , the greater the possibilities are and the greater the opportunities . |
| 3 | And now the hunt are turning round and they 're lying about what they 're doing , they 're saying it 's pest control , they 're saying , we do it , it 's quick , it 's a sharp nip in the back of the neck . |
| 4 | Not like fellers smoking a cigarette : just pull it out the packet , stick it in their mouth , do n't think about what they 're doing . |
| 5 | It does n't stop the S G doing what they 're doing and we are happy about what we 're doing and are happy about what they 're doing . |
| 6 | I think it 's when black kids and whites start thinking about what they 're going to do when they leave school . |
| 7 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 8 | Erm , the second sort is a gap which is a brief silence , usually sort of one second or less , between the end of one turn , and the next speaker actually starting to speak , so they 're still thinking about what they 're going to say . |
| 9 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 10 | Er , it 's been coming in gradually over the years , but there 's been an awful lot of , of er , resistance by some manufacturers on what they say on their labels , and what they say about what they 're selling us , and er , if they 're gon na do this , and I 'm getting a , a slight suspicion , and I think Mr is , that , that it 's got to be done eventually , and we , we have to be able , as a buying public , to understand exactly what we 're buying before we actually get it home . |
| 11 | I think what I 'll do is erm when totally confused about what they 're gon na do and who 's gon na be what and |
| 12 | They 're half listening and they 're half thinking about what they 're gon na say |
| 13 | As I was saying to me mam like , all these John Major and that , they 're all going on about what they 're gon na do . |
| 14 | Our pest control customers are now being provided with considerable detail about what they are getting for their money , which is quite right and proper . |
| 15 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 16 | In this way you are getting the students involved in thinking about what they are looking at , and you are also getting an indication of how they interpret what they see . |
| 17 | Most undergraduate courses claim at least to encourage students not only to learn , but to think about what they are learning ; to challenge the assumptions , to question the questions , to consider the alternatives . |
| 18 | These two incidents also show how young horses often seem to think about what they are learning and are eager to please . |
| 19 | Counsellors will by this stage start to form their own views about what they are hearing . |
| 20 | This reassures me that the band are clear about what they are trying to do , and it is far easier for me to get excited by someone coming in with a plan and an idea . |
| 21 | We know that , even given half-way decent funding , rehabilitation approaches and much of special education could never work well for our children because they start with low expectations , and are very unclear about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 22 | But experience has shown that it is possible to create elite , high-calibre long-term support teams if they are given the right leadership and training , an attractive physical environment to work from , good pay and conditions of service and , crucially , a set of realistic objectives about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 23 | They do n't plan to stand around while Mandela makes up his mind about what they are going to get . |
| 24 | 5 Students practise the new structure by talking about what they are going to do |
| 25 | If researchers have absolutely no hunches at all about what they are going to find , how can they possibly know what questions to ask ? |
| 26 | For these purposes teachers will need to keep samples of children 's writing in order to monitor its range and development over the course of a key stage ; and they will need systematic means of recording and appraising the ways in which pupils approach writing tasks , including talking about what they are doing and why . |
| 27 | Many people often walk past their destinations because their minds are thinking about this or that , but not about what they are doing . |
| 28 | The Suisse Romande Orchestra may still not occupy a position among the top rank of world orchestras , but at least they sound as thought they care deeply about what they are doing , as do the combined Lausanne and Chambre Romand Choirs . ( ) |
| 29 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
| 30 | The reality is that teachers do feel good about what they are doing , but that the occasions on which they do so are often conspicuous more by their rarity than their regularity . |