Example sentences of "whatever it is [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My lord sheriff , reverend gentlemen , ’ said the earl , ‘ you come very aptly , if Robin has reported your errand rightly , for I confess I 've been tempted to lift the lid on whatever it is they 've brought me from Ullesthorpe . |
| 2 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , I think many of the young people especially go through , never seem to have an interlock er , together to create er , whatever it is they want to . |
| 4 | Yes , it 's open Mondays to Fridays , from quarter to nine through to quarter to five , and anyone can just walk in and we 'll do our best to help them produce whatever it is they want to see , providing we 've got it and we can find it . |
| 5 | Yes , it 's open Mondays to Fridays from quarter to nine through to quarter to five , and anyone can just walk in and we 'll do our best to help them and produce whatever it is they want to see , providing we 've got it and we can find it . |
| 6 | Never would I wish to do whatever it is they do — nobody would ! |
| 7 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe next time Ellis will find me an undercover job that takes me to opium dens in Hong Kong , dusky maidens in Peru and shark-fishing amongst the coral reefs , or whatever it is they do there . ’ |
| 9 | Humans 'll come back and mend the wheels or whatever it is they do . ’ |
| 10 | So the builders have gone , and all the old biddies turn up in their Sunday best to say their Hail Marys , or whatever it is they do . |
| 11 | It seems that this Andrée woman was the star turn there , won all the prizes , played all the parts , set the fashion or whatever it is they look up to at those girl schools , you should know . ’ |
| 12 | I was just going to eat whatever it is they have and then go to sleep . |
| 13 | Neither change nor stasis , in any sense we could possibly understand , can have any application to whatever it is we label ‘ God ’ . |
| 14 | But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it . |
| 15 | But whatever it is we decide to do , it must be continued in the long term . |
| 16 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 17 | But she was around the house long enough for me to figure out that whatever arguments she has with herself , at the end of the day she will find some really crackerjack reason for doing whatever it is she wanted to do anyway . |
| 18 | If she wants whatever it is she gets out of this relationship , no one can deny she 's entitled to it . |
| 19 | Lee ca n't breathe Liz has got psoriasis and Lee 's got whatever it is she 's got ! |
| 20 | He is employed doing whatever it is he does by a Bank whose caring dirigeants wear pin-striped underpants and will look after him until he retires . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'll be busy , ’ said Robert , ‘ studying briefs , or whatever it is he does . ’ |
| 22 | What he said was you do n't get paid until the erm the actual sort of whatever it is he 's sold has been installed . |
| 23 | I mean in terms of hours of work and tea breaks and whatever it is you had , you know . |
| 24 | from tapes or whatever it is you hold on . |
| 25 | whatever it is you wanted bread . |
| 26 | Or whatever it is you know . |
| 27 | You 're wasted as a carpenter , or whatever it is you like to call yourself . |
| 28 | I said well I 'll be quite honest mate , there 's two hundred people working in this factory and I said , if you think that e all the charge hands and the supervisors have got to come down and roll up you lot to get the job done I said you turn round and you think if you was in business , whatever it is you like to do , if you 're in business and you 've got an order and that order 's got ta be out by six o'clock tonight and you 've got ta grovel to your workers otherwise you 'd lose that order , I said what would you say ? |
| 29 | For what it is worth , ma'am , I would recommend an equal division of whatever it is you have to leave . ’ |
| 30 | Or compute , or whatever it is you do . ’ |