Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] is [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In anger she wrote : — whatever you have a mind to do Ellen it is not for you to dictate Oreste 's future and I confess I was disturbed to have you write as though he were your son and not mine , which he is and you know you can not keep him and that it would be wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know who she is but I know that she exists . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm like , ‘ I know who he is but I 've never listened to him . ’ |
| 4 | So I decided : if anyone does come , I want to see who it is before I show myself . |
| 5 | Do you want to know who it is before I go out ? |
| 6 | Agents do n't want deadwood and if they are interested in you it is because they feel they can sell you into the market , so that you can go on and make money both for yourself and them . |
| 7 | When I ask for something it is because I think it is worth trying but in this case the very clear proviso about needing to buy was a strong psychological deterrent to investing the time and effort needed to learn yet another keyboard technique and language . |
| 8 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 9 | He 's evil , that 's what he is and nobody knows what I suffer . |
| 10 | But whatever it is that they seek , this Chinese martial art will , somewhere along the road of disciplined training , provide it . |
| 11 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 12 | You , you ha you establish a rapport of listening for a little while to whatever it is that they 've got to say , and their troubles and their anxieties and I was n't happy that |
| 13 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
| 14 | This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe . |
| 15 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 16 | Whatever it is that you wish , I am instructed to provide . ’ |
| 17 | English will basically be er Chaucer or whatever , or whatever it is that you 've been doing . |
| 18 | Bottom up processing is where you start with the input information , whatever that might be and then you , based on that input information , you extract or inp or extract more meaning from the input until you end up with whatever it is that you recognise . |
| 19 | You built a little plan , that if I leave at ten past eight , I miss that traffic , or I , whatever it is that you do n't often plan till the holidays , but after a while it stopped being a decision making process . |
| 20 | Collect so many tokens you get a T V or a washing machine or whatever it is that you want . |
| 21 | whatever it is and you 've really got to get it off and then presumably it 's marked and |
| 22 | because there is n't a grant or there is n't whatever it is and you know and , and how you actually manage to er cope with that yourself . |
| 23 | They find new ways of sharing what resources there are , whether collaborating in local policing or working with health authorities or whatever it is and I think they form the base for renewal of politics because we have to recreate politics for localities upwards and here , just finally chancing my arm , I must just frankly say that I am not clear that over-large amalgamations of unions will be much more helpful than over-centralized government bureaucracies . |
| 24 | You hold it up and I 'll see I ca n't say what it is unless you show me . |
| 25 | Yeah find out , I mean exactly sort of trying to find out exactly what it is that they want to think about , suggest , you know |
| 26 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 27 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
| 28 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 29 | Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do . |
| 30 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |