Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nah , but he , he do , what I mean is some people enjoy |
| 2 | We follow the building of the hotel , we follow the bank robbers ’ plans , and at the end of the book there are what I hope are some not too implausible twists and turns . ’ |
| 3 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 4 | This equipment I kept for about three years , although I never forgot the quality of the original sounds I 'd heard , so I decided to invest in what I thought was some serious equipment . |
| 5 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 6 | Well what I saw was some tail lights going along the road . |
| 7 | But I I do n't erm from the nature of Mr Justice in the Midland Bank that there 's a a well known but w what I say is that in this case er what your Lordship will be dealing with are essentially what are matters of practice for conveyancing solicitors when faced particularly with clients er making financial arrangements to enter into this and the duties of in that particular situation . |
| 8 | " Well , " replied Blackberry , " what I think is this . |
| 9 | what I think is this |
| 10 | What I have tried to do in this chapter is to suggest a way of looking at towns as though they were a special kind of landscape — as indeed they are — to get behind the guide-books and the individual buildings to the secret history of these places : to draw attention to what I think are some of the significant bits of urban landscape that point the way into this secret history . |
| 11 | what I suggest is these procedures are , we briefly mentioned this this morning , are supposed to reflect the best practice of what we do now . |
| 12 | and what I found is that one . |
| 13 | ‘ And what I propose is this — that we introduce an additional label into the collection . |
| 14 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 15 | But I what I need is any anybody |
| 16 | She now turned her smile on Millie , but she received no answering smile , only a stare from what she thought were those very odd grey eyes . |
| 17 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 18 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 19 | After two years without having felt a man 's arms around her , she was vulnerable , and what she wanted was any suitably attractive and virile male . |
| 20 | But his speech seemed a curiously formal introduction to what she supposed was some kind of orgy . |
| 21 | I mean what er , what she put was that o okay was n't it ? |
| 22 | It 's called Totally Pauly , and what you get is this gangling , scarf-draped , tendril-haired , mumbling , stumbling doper addressing the camera — and , by extension , us — as ‘ Bud ’ , accosting strangers on the street , cruising chicks ( ‘ buff nugs ’ , to use his parlance ) on the Strip , or making field trips to beauty pageants , pig farms and rodeos . |
| 23 | But in return for its rich density of lovingly dwelt-on , almost novelistic detail , what you lose is any sense of a strong forward pulse or of the play 's irresistible sweep towards doom . |
| 24 | What you love are all those glitzy London shops where you can indulge your weakness for expensive baubles . ’ |
| 25 | The many gaps in the fossil record can be interpreted both ways — as being due to the intrinsic incompleteness of a record based on random serendipitous preservation , or as reflecting the true historical sequence : what you see is all there is . |
| 26 | Thus most of the popular WYSIWYG document preparation systems are often condemned as ‘ What You See Is All You Get ’ , but such systems are hugely successful in the market . |
| 27 | What you need is some of this . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What you need is some rest , ’ said Luke . |
| 29 | No , Brother , ’ he tapped Athelstan lightly on the fingers , ‘ what you need is more sleep . |
| 30 | What you want is that sugar stuff what they 'll take back to nest . |