Example sentences of "what [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't ! |
| 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 | That is what a T four bacteria is for and that 's what I am for , and I would suggest y ultimately what you are for as well , and this is why in the end erm nature will cast us aside . |
| 4 | But I know what I am and I do n't like it much . |
| 5 | What I am and what I 'm not , and why . |
| 6 | Also the other men and women I represented when I became convenor they made me what I am and I thank them . |
| 7 | I am what I am and I represent the Queen through the Lieutenancy |
| 8 | Talking in Leicester this week and last week to groups of black women , some black women are saying I have never thought before about being able to talk about what I am and making up my own mind . |
| 9 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 10 | ‘ With respect , what I 'm after is a result . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What I 'm after is a little donation . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm delighted with the place , because what I 'm after , I suppose , is human variety , and America 's pretty pluralism , and there 's even more of that here . |
| 13 | So what what I 'm that that that 's the sort of basic outline and I see it as an opportunity of putting the name in front of quite a lot of schools |
| 14 | I pranced about and lay on the ground and turned the lens through 45 degrees and stepped in pore-scouringly close , but what I was really doing , what I was after , was a good shot of Stuart 's double chin . |
| 15 | He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography : ‘ I depict not what I was but what I see when I look back ’ , he told Eleanor Farjeon . |
| 16 | Similar to what I was when I went . |
| 17 | What I was if any other matter comes into light before it comes in we do n't do anything about it and that 's why I would oppose that because of this because one it 's not necessary to move something that we would look at it and sit back and after the inspector reports . |
| 18 | I spent a good while asking for something written down so that I could see what I was and was n't supposed to do , but that was a forlorn hope . |
| 19 | I arrived in the vastness of a new country as what I thought a tabula rasa but there was writing underneath , the coded determinants of what I was and always would be inscribed in ( what shall we say ? ) acetic acid or lemon juice which gradually browned and showed in the revealing action of sunlight . |
| 20 | My life lacked the clarity , form and order of simple fiction , and I had no idea who , where or what I was or should be . |
| 21 | He was unable to imagine what she was after , why she had chosen this way out , why she seemed so bloody cheerful . |
| 22 | She would n't like it if people knew what she was and she did n't know anything about them . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 26 | so you 've got a guideline as to what you are if you need it . |
| 27 | I 've always thought you are what you are and you should n't pretend to be anyone else . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't known what you are and where you come from . |
| 29 | It is what you are and always will be . |
| 30 | It 's not what you are and what you own that I care about . |