Example sentences of "what [be] it [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like , what 's it they 've got ? |
| 2 | ‘ But , sweety pie , I am — what 's it you keep saying ? — a bear of very little brain . ’ |
| 3 | What 's it you want ? |
| 4 | What 's it you want ? |
| 5 | now what 's it you know five hundred percent |
| 6 | Ah well I mean there 's of course well I mean that what 's it you know , it 's surprising how much , that Antiques Roadshow 's |
| 7 | What 's it she said the other day something about |
| 8 | ‘ What is it they talk , m'lady ? ’ |
| 9 | If somebody says you do n't wan na be rushed , right , that 's what you 've got ta say to them that 's just what that old dear was saying the other day , right you certainly understand that , right , you agree with them , first thing you do you always agree with them , right and then you 've just got the same sequence as I want to think about it , but just sort of make it clear , I mean what is it they actually , you know , frightened of being rushed into ? |
| 10 | Well wh what is it they 've all got in common then ? |
| 11 | what is it they actually want then ? |
| 12 | What i , what 's what is it we 've got now ? |
| 13 | and erm I just think that women are so strong and , and another thing that I find er that is very important , is perhaps there 's women here we should look at why there 's only one female prison in Scotland and about fourteen male lot and including young offenders institutions and er , I mean what is it we are as agenda er just less criminally minded , more controlled , more clever , what , you know we should be teaching men . |
| 14 | And when we give the people syndicate or group exercises to do , the group with the Swiss person or German person in it is subjected to , now what is it we are supposed to be doing now ? |
| 15 | Now what is it we 're trying to do with the land reform document ? |
| 16 | ‘ People asked ‘ What is it we 're supposed to improve ? |
| 17 | What is it we 've got to do now ? |
| 18 | What is it he blames thee for ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ So what is it he hopes to get out of it ? ’ |
| 20 | Even I mean the the English teacher will know that , that what he 's trying to do is to get a student to write his intentions clearly , to make his points clearly , to have a goal in writing his essay , what is it he 's trying to say . |
| 21 | What is it you want ? |
| 22 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 23 | ‘ And what is it you want then , Jinny ? ’ |
| 24 | What is it you 're hiding , Malamute ? |
| 25 | ‘ All right , what is it you want to know ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What is it you want ? ’ she asked shrewishly . |
| 27 | What is it you model , then ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ All right — what is it you want ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What is it you want , ducks ? ’ |
| 30 | Gentle readers did not want their poetry linked with what amounts to sociology ; with his taste for ‘ interviewing ’ the practitioners of strange trades like the Leechgatherer and asking ‘ How is it that you live and what is it you do ? ’ |