Example sentences of "what [verb] [pron] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 2 | What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history . |
| 3 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 4 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |
| 5 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 6 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 7 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 8 | But what worries me is that , since middle age has been put to fright , will old age descend overnight like a sudden frost on the dew ? ’ |
| 9 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 10 | I 'm no expert , but what worries me is that , when you 're dealing with madmen , they increase their demands at the slightest sign of weakness . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’ |
| 12 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 13 | What concerns me is that a group of clubs had clandestine meetings . |
| 14 | What concerns me is that , in effect , the Minister is saying that all campaigns are condemned before they begin . |
| 15 | What concerns me is that the vast majority are not coming to enjoy the Park but are using the roads as convenient thoroughfares . |
| 16 | What concerns us is that if those things are done outside the IASC 's control , it threatens to undermine our credibility . |
| 17 | For the moment , what concerns us is that this government is the product of change extending over several centuries , coming to fruition only in the past century . |
| 18 | Gravedigger Jose Molina said : ‘ What scares me is that I think I 'll be her first victim . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What surprises me is that you 're aware of it . |
| 20 | What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’ |
| 22 | What bothers me is that I 'm not convinced he has done enough . |
| 23 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 24 | What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all . |
| 25 | At Oxford Crown Court today Judge Harold Wilson said : ’ What troubles me is that there is no reason why police should n't have become involved in this in 1990 . |
| 26 | ‘ What pains me is that you took the opportunity when I was sick unto death to steal Prince Edward 's heart from me , ’ she said to Joan , having informed her of the plan . |
| 27 | to think this report would be about revolution and erm I mean what strikes me is that there 's a real debate going on between |
| 28 | What amuses me is that many of those who claimed I would hang , died violent deaths themselves in some pot-holed alleyway , bleak battlefield or gory execution yard . |