Example sentences of "[Wh det] it is [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never remember which it is you American girls prefer , my dear , coffee or tea — or is it chocolate ? |
| 2 | Which it is I would assume anywhere . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Never would I wish to do whatever it is they do — nobody would ! |
| 6 | Commander Adam Dalgliesh is coming to see me as soon as they 've finished with whatever it is they 're doing at the church . |
| 7 | He 's going to resist and negotiate them down to whatever it is they really want . |
| 8 | I was just going to eat whatever it is they have and then go to sleep . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
| 11 | But whatever it is , whatever it is they 're saying or trying to say , it never cramps Tod 's style . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
| 14 | There 's no reason why they should n't carry on with whatever it is they 're doing . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Humans 'll come back and mend the wheels or whatever it is they do . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 23 | Neither change nor stasis , in any sense we could possibly understand , can have any application to whatever it is we label ‘ God ’ . |
| 24 | Whatever it is we are doing , we are already doing it , and it seems to make sense . |
| 25 | But whatever it is we decide to do , it must be continued in the long term . |
| 26 | Whatever it is we should first notice that while the capacity to act autonomously is construed as a psychological capacity , the capacity-to-act-autonomously is not . |
| 27 | There are some people who obviously come at the weekend more to see whatever it is we 're showing . |
| 28 | But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it . |
| 29 | If she wants whatever it is she gets out of this relationship , no one can deny she 's entitled to it . |
| 30 | But she was around the house long enough for me to figure out that whatever arguments she has with herself , at the end of the day she will find some really crackerjack reason for doing whatever it is she wanted to do anyway . |