Example sentences of "what [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He condemned Outram 's teaching in the language of purity outrage as : ‘ most disgraceful and disgusting and abominable and I wo n't have my child taught like what she is teaching ’ . |
| 2 | I know , she 's she does n't eat that much , but what she is eating i everything 's sweet . |
| 3 | I know she does n't eat that much but what she is eating i everything 's sweet . |
| 4 | She points to the teddy bear ( that one ) in the first picture and then points to the empty chair in the second picture ( there ) and assumes that the teacher is paying attention to what she is pointing to in their shared context of situation . |
| 5 | Julia is trying to discover who she is and what she is cut out to do . |
| 6 | Catholics are only angry because they feel threatened and so there must be some strength and force in what she is trying to say . |
| 7 | There is evidence in speaker A's contributions that what she is trying to say is not very well organised before she starts to speak . |
| 8 | If someone was making a confession about an unfaithful lover , and was on the edge of tears , people would often say , listen , darling , this woman knows what she is singing about . |
| 9 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 10 | If she is ever going to learn to stand on her own feet finally , when her grieving is over , she will need your acceptance , for the time being , that what she is experiencing now is something like the intense suffering of a child separated from the security of its mother 's presence , with all the feelings of fear and panic that brings . |
| 11 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 12 | That is what she is assumed to want , and that is her innate nature and hence it should be so . |
| 13 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |
| 14 | She is silently waiting for me now to understand the nature of what she is offering me . |
| 15 | The creditor may have done enough by superintending himself the execution of the document and by attempting to assure himself by means of questions or explanation that she knows to what she is committing herself . |
| 16 | Paul 's wife Julie , 31 , phoned Susan last night and said later : ‘ I know what she is going through . |
| 17 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
| 18 | It takes a little more perception to appreciate what she is going through inside . ’ |
| 19 | The hon. Lady does not know what she is talking about . |
| 20 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 21 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 22 | She has to have the money , though , because goodness knows what her rent will be , and Rose Macaulay says she will not pay a penny more but Rose will do exactly what everyone will have to do and pay what she is told . |
| 23 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 24 | Seemingly unrestrained by their director , his principals , Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons , indulge in a perfect orgy of , in actor-speak , ‘ playing the result ’ : their first meeting , before they are even introduced , is a wild farrago of fish-like glances , tortured swallowing and interminable silences , and Malle follows suit , equipping his female lead with a get-up — black leather , gloves , fags , sunglasses , four-inch heels and an Eton crop to make a Brazilian transvestite blink , never mind a research assistant at Sotheby 's , which is what she is meant to be . |
| 25 | What she is saying , with her big white collars , is , ‘ I am a clean , controlled and decent Christian woman . |
| 26 | She wants her readers to think out for themselves what she is saying . |
| 27 | Speaker B stops trying to take turns in the negotiation of topic and waits for speaker A to make it clear how what she is saying has some connection to the existing topic framework . |
| 28 | Alternatively , the sender may wish to make certain parts of the message the topic of what she is saying — the focus of attention — and others simply comments . |
| 29 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |
| 30 | Her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying . |