Example sentences of "whatever it be [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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1 | performer transposer or whatever it 's I do n't want to limit myself to just saying , I 'm a teacher other things as well . |
2 | Never would I wish to do whatever it is they do — nobody would ! |
3 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
4 | ‘ Maybe next time Ellis will find me an undercover job that takes me to opium dens in Hong Kong , dusky maidens in Peru and shark-fishing amongst the coral reefs , or whatever it is they do there . ’ |
5 | Humans 'll come back and mend the wheels or whatever it is they do . ’ |
6 | So the builders have gone , and all the old biddies turn up in their Sunday best to say their Hail Marys , or whatever it is they do . |
7 | He is employed doing whatever it is he does by a Bank whose caring dirigeants wear pin-striped underpants and will look after him until he retires . |
8 | ‘ He 'll be busy , ’ said Robert , ‘ studying briefs , or whatever it is he does . ’ |
9 | Or compute , or whatever it is you do . ’ |
10 | She sat down and began to pour out the tea and , her voice still quiet , she went on , ‘ I do n't suppose it 's really so bad for you , instructing or teaching , whatever it is you do , but in the Naafi , amidst the clatter — ’ she now looked at him and her words were spaced as she went on , ‘ and the chaff and the ribbing ; well , I sometimes think I have died and gone to hell , because that 's what I think hell must be like ; constant joking , especially when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again . ’ |
11 | ‘ Forgive my asking , ’ she added , ‘ But are n't you wearing rather impractical gear for grubbing around in the earth or whatever it is you do ? ’ |
12 | Now shut your eyes or whatever it is you do . ’ |
13 | ‘ But whatever it is I do n't think that I need it now . ’ |
14 | I perhaps have worked out , I need a clerical assistant and so forth , I might need a small van to actually take my widget on a Friday , to Widget , or Big Widget factory , or whatever it is I do with these widgets . |
15 | Most everybody in the house had gone to work , or whatever it was they did during daylight , and as I was only two feet away I reached over and slipped the lock , taking the phone receiver with me . |
16 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
17 | But as soon as you — did whatever it was you did to get Kokos out of my head , I came to my so-called senses . ’ |
18 | It was nothing to do with her , and whatever it was she did n't want to be mixed up in it . |
19 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |