Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [Wh det] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise that what I am describing , people divided in themselves , is said to characterise mental illness , and is the absolute opposite of our idea of emotional integration . |
| 2 | It will be objected that what I am suggesting will be the death of ‘ standards ’ in schools , and especially in the sixth form . |
| 3 | ‘ What I want and what I 'm going to get are two very different things . ’ |
| 4 | Something had changed , because I had suddenly realised that what I was trying to do was impossible . |
| 5 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 6 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 7 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 8 | I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt . |
| 9 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 10 | I consulted the programme and discovered that what I was regarding was the rose garden of an English country house , circa 1922 . |
| 11 | And that is is is not what I get cos what I was doing is doing them meself and then |
| 12 | I 'm not saying that what I 'm saying is that that we must all have at the back of our minds a a sort of considered opinion of what 's |
| 13 | Many of the men are black or half-caste descendants of freed Saharan slaves and I feel that what I am watching is not Islamic at root but a practice brought by their ancestors and grafted on to the religion . |
| 14 | But I 'm more concerned with what I 'm doing and what I 'm trying to do next rather than dwelling on my position with regards to other musicians and music in general . ’ |
| 15 | If we look at the rates proposals — I shall give way to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside — He does not want to intervene because what I am saying is right . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew that whatever I was producing , I was meant to have : that somehow we had chosen each other . |
| 17 | Throughout the day he would stop work , make us coffee and talk to me about what he was working on , what he was reading and what I was doing . |
| 18 | That is supposed to say what we do and what I 'm saying is |
| 19 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ When I was talking to him , he had this habit of looking over my head and I wondered whether what I was saying was going in , but he was digesting it and seeing how he could turn it round to his way of doing things . |