Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will want to know what he is doing to address the POA 's concerns about the operation of ’ fresh start ’ . |
| 2 | PAUSE D' you not want to know what it is ? |
| 3 | Do you want to know who it is before I go out ? |
| 4 | I personally do n't get any joy from seeing people reproduce their records exactly on stage ; I want to see something which is special for the night . ’ |
| 5 | So I decided : if anyone does come , I want to see who it is before I show myself . |
| 6 | I ca n't wait to see what it is . ’ |
| 7 | I 've just come to see what there is , part of the interest is to see the great bad taste of Robert Maxwell , no matter how much you spend of your own money or other people 's it ca n't buy you taste |
| 8 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 9 | ‘ Want to know what it is ? ’ |
| 10 | The polarising thinker needs to know what he is to agree with and what he must attack . |
| 11 | Tomorrow 's audience must be managed plausibly , he will need to know what he is about . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He wants to know what it is like in a jet , ’ said the Thing . |
| 13 | ‘ A more health conscious consumer wants to know what he is drinking . ’ |
| 14 | Wilson is a simple man like most policemen , show him a body and he wants to know whose it is , how it died and who 's responsible . |
| 15 | The designer has to choose one which is appropriate for the file . |
| 16 | The most he has done has shown what it is to approach things from a moral point of view , he has not shown that only one particular sort of maxim can coherently be universalised in each case . |
| 17 | It has shown me there is a lot of good out there . |
| 18 | First , one has to identify what it is that undergraduates actually study . |
| 19 | But friends of Countess Spencer say she has told them she is spending the festive season at Mougins in France with her great friend Jacqueline de Ribes . |
| 20 | He has to do what it is morally possible for him to do in the circumstances . |
| 21 | This history should be looked on as my attempt to explore the history of the College so as best to understand why it has become what it is today . |
| 22 | Gergiev explains : ‘ Three years ago I invited a producer who was able to rethink and , as you know , my own interferences were quite strong ; altogether we tried to build something which is clear for the generations now . ’ |
| 23 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |
| 24 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 25 | When she has finished what she is doing for the moment , she walks on briskly , her head making little bird-like movements , so that she can see everything that she passes . |
| 26 | When activity is taking place rapidly under pressure and with scant resources , there is a tendency to neglect to tell anyone what is going on or to fail to find out whether the ground may have already been covered by someone else . |
| 27 | He had a little English and he said : ‘ She wants to tell you she is near to dying , and that she is n't afraid . |
| 28 | When the figure turns , say ‘ May peace be with you ’ , and request to hear who it is and why it is banging at your door . |
| 29 | Julie 's language is interesting ; implied in what she said is a hard/soft dichotomy ; philosophy is seen as being less serious , less important than ‘ hard ’ theory ; she is slightly embarrassed about wanting to do something which is apparently less difficult ( and by implication more trivial ) than straightforward theory . |
| 30 | There are so many diseases that can be helped by the Alexander Technique because , whatever problem we may have , the remedy is always the same : find out what it is that is causing the problem , stop doing whatever it is and then you will soon start to feel better . |