Example sentences of "be [conj] what [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the night I wo n't know who I am or what I do any more . |
| 2 | Erm , one of the things that depresses me , is probably the main thing that depresses me is not being valued for what I am or what I do and I think many women suffer from depression because their strengths and their creativity are not recognised and valued . |
| 3 | Elaine , a 16-year-old girl who has spent most of her life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro , in Brazil , puts it better : ‘ I dream of a better world , a world where children and adults are no longer abandoned , tortured and murdered because of who we are or what we do … |
| 4 | No matter what you are or what you 've done , I ca n't wait to feel myself moving inside you , burn up in your flame . ’ |
| 5 | Such is the informality of this unique little island that it matters not who you are or what you have . |
| 6 | ‘ You appear to know who I am , but you still have n't told me who you are or what you want with me . ’ |
| 7 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 9 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |
| 10 | ‘ Who I am and what I do does not concern you . |
| 11 | Did we talk about where we 'd been and what we 'd done , what we 'd seen and what had happened ? |
| 12 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 13 | But there is also envy and fear of where you have been and what you have done . ’ |
| 14 | When I got home I told everybody where I 'd been and what I 'd done : my 63-year-old father , my three sisters , my nephews , my friends , the men and women in my local pub and my colleagues at the bank . |
| 15 | Anna was full of prattle about where she had been and what she had done . |
| 16 | I want to know where she 's been and what she 's been doing . ’ |
| 17 | It is important that we help each other tell the truth about who we are and what we 've done . |
| 18 | If the company ‘ goes under ’ , I fear R will regard the years he has spent on it as wasted , it seems to be a feature of modern society that we tend to judge who we are and what we 've achieved , even what success is , by our work above everything else . |
| 19 | Maybe one of you good bodies over the water would fax this to Elland Road with a short message stating who we are and what we want : - ) ) |
| 20 | ‘ We want to make sure that UK handling agents , Scottish hotels and in particular coach operators are aware of who we are and what we have to offer their clients . ’ |
| 21 | The greater the sense of pride in who we are and what we do , the more we feel we deserve reward and praise . |
| 22 | We feel subjectively that we have the ability to choose who we are and what we do . |
| 23 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 24 | Make sure that you know what these are and what they mean . |
| 25 | The exploration of what these values are and what they mean has hardly started , but it should become a primary focus of communication ethics . |
| 26 | It 's worth knowing who they are and what they do . |
| 27 | Whether or not you think you 'll ever need to use their services ( see Chapter 21 on where to go for advice and help ) , it 's important to get to know who they are and what they do . |
| 28 | All right then tell us who they are and what they do . |
| 29 | Pride is a state in which people seek attention and recognition for what they think they are and what they think they have done . |
| 30 | Huntley , a burly 51-yearold , has created a constant reminder of who they are and what they want in the form of glossy profiles , complete with pictures , inserted beneath a glass plate on the leather topped table in his office . |