Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [be] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | INVESTORS , traders , bankers and managers often operate with only a partial model in mind about why they are doing whatever it is they are doing , and what principles lie behind it . |
| 2 | Gradually , each successive shot brings us closer to the action and eventually to the actions of individuals , allowing us to see their expressions and hear whatever it is they are saying to each other . |
| 3 | Never would I wish to do whatever it is they do — nobody would ! |
| 4 | Commander Adam Dalgliesh is coming to see me as soon as they 've finished with whatever it is they 're doing at the church . |
| 5 | He 's going to resist and negotiate them down to whatever it is they really want . |
| 6 | I was just going to eat whatever it is they have and then go to sleep . |
| 7 | It seems that this Andrée woman was the star turn there , won all the prizes , played all the parts , set the fashion or whatever it is they look up to at those girl schools , you should know . ’ |
| 8 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
| 9 | But whatever it is , whatever it is they 're saying or trying to say , it never cramps Tod 's style . |
| 10 | ‘ My lord sheriff , reverend gentlemen , ’ said the earl , ‘ you come very aptly , if Robin has reported your errand rightly , for I confess I 've been tempted to lift the lid on whatever it is they 've brought me from Ullesthorpe . |
| 11 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
| 12 | There 's no reason why they should n't carry on with whatever it is they 're doing . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Humans 'll come back and mend the wheels or whatever it is they do . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm , I think many of the young people especially go through , never seem to have an interlock er , together to create er , whatever it is they want to . |
| 17 | er it 's always been er guaranteed i.e. if a customer was not satisfied , then one hundred percent we will rectify whatever it is they 're not satisfied with . |
| 18 | Yes , it 's open Mondays to Fridays , from quarter to nine through to quarter to five , and anyone can just walk in and we 'll do our best to help them produce whatever it is they want to see , providing we 've got it and we can find it . |
| 19 | Yes , it 's open Mondays to Fridays from quarter to nine through to quarter to five , and anyone can just walk in and we 'll do our best to help them and produce whatever it is they want to see , providing we 've got it and we can find it . |
| 20 | She hesitated , torn between the unaccountable shyness she always felt in Louise 's presence and the overwhelming desire to be in on whatever it was they were giggling about , even if she was only a barely tolerated spectator . |
| 21 | Whatever it was they were after , it was an unknown quantity , unknown , that is , except for a lethal ferocity . |
| 22 | Whatever it was they went into the sea for , it was found way down in its ice-cold black depths . |
| 23 | JB : Just working alongside these people , and seeing them being involved in whatever it was they were doing was stimulating in a strange sort of way , and kept us on our toes . |
| 24 | Whatever it was they were really building up there . |
| 25 | They would say whatever it was they had to say in their own time . |
| 26 | The stench from it filled our cell , making us feel nauseous and apprehensive that we , too , might catch whatever it was they were suffering from . |
| 27 | ‘ Jehovah was wont to scare the pants off the Israelites — or whatever it was they girded up their loins with . ’ |
| 28 | But then that would mean that you 'd have to have assessed people in whatever it was they were going on the training course before |
| 29 | And er whatever whatever it was they said that er they would n't chance operating on him . |
| 30 | 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 . |