Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] that you " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What am I that you hate so much ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Is it that you do n't like Lord Christopher ? |
| 3 | Jacob is not dealing with a demon , and when the answer to his question comes , together with the dawn , he knows that himself for certain : ‘ Why is it that you ask my name ? ’ |
| 4 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 5 | But what else is it , Dorothea thought anxiously , what else is it that you are wanting to do ? |
| 6 | ‘ What is it that you want me to do , Isabel ? ’ |
| 7 | What is it that you are trying to tell me ? |
| 8 | Is it that you wanted to demonstrate to me how ignorant I am ? |
| 9 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
| 10 | What is it that you want ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What is it that you wish to discuss ? ’ he asked . |
| 12 | When she had sat down again she said : ‘ So how is it that you 're looking for Elsie now , so long after the event ? |
| 13 | Why is it that you can arrive at an aerodrome ( they do not have the temerity to call them airports , let alone international ) with facilities such as NDBs , localisers , clean eating facilities , tar macadam runways , and where landing fees are minimum ? |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | Their mere existence fascinated him — ‘ an old man was ’ — and the question addressed to the Leechgatherer : ‘ How is it that you live ? ’ is not really a question about sources of income . |
| 16 | Having read the description of A Touch of Frost , how likely is it that you will watch it ? |
| 17 | ‘ Joan , how is it that you know — about things like that ? ’ |
| 18 | At one crowded meeting a British soldier got up and said , ‘ Why is it that you Burmese are always talking about independence and self-government ? |
| 19 | Make bosses aware of their behaviour by asking : ‘ What is it that you really want to say that you 're covering up with sarcasm ? ’ |
| 20 | More important than all that , however , what is it that you , the reader , like about the rose ? |
| 21 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 22 | What sort of crime is it that you see ? |
| 23 | ‘ What is it that you dislike most about work ? ’ |
| 24 | When you saw what a disaster you had caused , you could of started again and taken some time , oh sorry I forgot that 's not godlike , you probably did n't want to know or is it that you enjoy what you made , a sort of entertainment , better than Home and Away , watching wars and diseases and things . |
| 25 | ‘ Or is it that you think so highly of her that you ca n't bring yourself to cast her pearls before swine ? |
| 26 | ‘ Where are you from , Creggan , and what is it that you fear in this place ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And how is it that you know about it ? ’ |
| 28 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 29 | Or is it that you want him to ? ’ |
| 30 | BELVILLE : What is it that you say ? |