Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] what it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 2 | Edwina Currie had rejected his advances ( ‘ What sort of girl do you think I am ? ’ ) while Emma Nicholson had not caught exactly what it was he had proposed . |
| 3 | Very very erm suggestive metaphor although I do n't know exactly what it 's extraordinary one , erm erm erm , the , perhaps we should begin to step back a second here , to think about how we normally individuate things . |
| 4 | Do you a do you know exactly what it 's going to cost you ? |
| 5 | I mean there , do we have any , do we have a view , do , does anybody know exactly what it is ? |
| 6 | The exception to this is the police , who have had by far the largest addition to that , they have n't lost money when they lost S S A , erm , we have been ge , extremely generous to them , far more than to any other committee this year , erm , and although we have n't given them money for , to pay awards because we do n't know exactly what it is . |
| 7 | I do n't know exactly what it was but he started really working hard at school . |
| 8 | In the first place I do not know exactly what it was like in all its details . |
| 9 | I do n't know exactly what it was , but er er it was potted meat sandwiches er and tea . |
| 10 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 11 | But if we are going to meet expectations of clients then really we have to know exactly what it is the client needs and would be happy with . |
| 12 | And it 's , it 's difficult for us to tell because we do n't have that many regional studies to be able to know exactly what it was that was determining these differences of values . |
| 13 | A bustling market , dark , smokey houses and a busy wharf have all been re-created in accurate detail so that you can experience in sight , sound and smell exactly what it was like to live and work in the Viking city of Jorvik . |
| 14 | The narrator says , ‘ I was there , I felt it , but I ca n't describe exactly what it was , ’ and everyone draws closer , fascinated . |
| 15 | Spilling the knots from one 's entrails out onto paper is n't likely to make a poem or story that others will want to read , but many writers do have to go through the ‘ spilling ’ process in order to know just what it is they have to hammer into shape . |
| 16 | One of the problems is you ne , it 's alright saying something on the environment , you have to tighten up what it is you 're gon na do . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Let me try to find out what it is really all about . |
| 19 | Practising the Alexander Technique is a slow process of examining every area of our lives to find out what it is that is going wrong . |
| 20 | The way to get the best out of something — whether faith or a donkey or anything else — is to find out what it is and treat it accordingly . |
| 21 | To find out what it is like , why not arrange for a member of another church to come unannounced one Sunday morning , playing the role of a visitor ? |
| 22 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 23 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 24 | It is well known that many members of Parliament are among those who are deeply dissatisfied with Parliament 's ability to control the executive , or even to find out what it is doing . |
| 25 | Cos I 've got something stuck in me loft , and I do n't fancy going to find out what it is . |
| 26 | At last , incredibly , I 'm going to find out what it is I 've been missing … wanting ! |
| 27 | The rangers ' knowledge of the areas is extensive and they can identify most of the wildlife in the area — indeed if they see a new plant or insect which they do not recognise they normally check through their reference library when they get back to base to find out what it is . |
| 28 | He 's contracted some virus and is half off his head with delirium while the doctors are fighting like mad to find out what it is . ’ |
| 29 | With more than 130 successful wines to choose from , it would be a very pleasant experience indeed just trying to find out what it is that makes a good wine a winner , observed one Winemark spokesman . |
| 30 | And they 're going to find out what it is that the doctor said . |