Example sentences of "[Wh det] it is you " 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 | ‘ I 'm not sure of my plan yet but whatever it is you could help me if you want . ’ |
| 3 | Next Wed 's possible visit to London — there 'll probably be a train strike that day , so maybe we should think of alternative ways of getting whatever it is you want me to bring down to you on another day ? |
| 4 | ‘ Whatever it is you can count on me , Sarah , you know that . |
| 5 | If you stop trying to become whatever it is you are trying to become and instead have the feeling that you are what you are , and this is the moment — your struggle stops . |
| 6 | Or compute , or whatever it is you do . ’ |
| 7 | She sat down and began to pour out the tea and , her voice still quiet , she went on , ‘ I do n't suppose it 's really so bad for you , instructing or teaching , whatever it is you do , but in the Naafi , amidst the clatter — ’ she now looked at him and her words were spaced as she went on , ‘ and the chaff and the ribbing ; well , I sometimes think I have died and gone to hell , because that 's what I think hell must be like ; constant joking , especially when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again . ’ |
| 8 | Go and buy some curtains or whatever it is you want . " |
| 9 | from tapes or whatever it is you hold on . |
| 10 | If whatever it is you feel you have to convey becomes too present in your mind , you will easily forget the duty of entertaining . |
| 11 | I mean in terms of hours of work and tea breaks and whatever it is you had , you know . |
| 12 | You 're wasted as a carpenter , or whatever it is you like to call yourself . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose you can say whatever it is you want to say right here , only I 'm not hanging around to hear it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Forgive my asking , ’ she added , ‘ But are n't you wearing rather impractical gear for grubbing around in the earth or whatever it is you do ? ’ |
| 15 | For what it is worth , ma'am , I would recommend an equal division of whatever it is you have to leave . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's alright , whatever it is you can tell me . |
| 17 | ‘ To whatever it is you want . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I hope you 'll find whatever it is you 're looking for . |
| 19 | Now shut your eyes or whatever it is you do . ’ |
| 20 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 21 | You be in charge as much as possible of your time , and whatever it is you 're going to do . |
| 22 | You save up for the tokens to get what get y'know whatever it is you 're after . |
| 23 | whatever it is you wanted bread . |
| 24 | there , I do n't know , I do n't know what you 're gon na do , cos whatever it is you 're not doing it , it 's just letting time go by are n't ya , treading water if you like . |
| 25 | I said well I 'll be quite honest mate , there 's two hundred people working in this factory and I said , if you think that e all the charge hands and the supervisors have got to come down and roll up you lot to get the job done I said you turn round and you think if you was in business , whatever it is you like to do , if you 're in business and you 've got an order and that order 's got ta be out by six o'clock tonight and you 've got ta grovel to your workers otherwise you 'd lose that order , I said what would you say ? |
| 26 | Or whatever it is you know . |
| 27 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 28 | I ca n't for the life of me understand what it is you see in it . |
| 29 | Before you can make , you have to know what it is you are making . |
| 30 | The only thing I would add is that you need to find out what you are good at ; you need to find out what it is you can contribute which other people ca n't and that is something which only you can find out for yourself . |