Example sentences of "[conj] what [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not ask what hopes or expectations they have , or what they are dreaming of , but what they are experiencing . |
| 2 | We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for . |
| 3 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 4 | She did not question who it had been or what he was looking for . |
| 5 | that bastard , did n't know where he was gon na , he was indicating but I did n't know whether he was gon na just go on or what he was gon na do . |
| 6 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 7 | cancers I think you 'll find that what they 're doing with them ar a lot of those cancers will be cured . |
| 8 | Mr Hume told him : ‘ We have made it very clear that what we are seeking in our dialogue is an overall strategy for lasting peace . |
| 9 | It is possible that what we are dealing with here is the experience of sections of the professional gentry , though it was not confined to that group alone . |
| 10 | We should not be misled by any temptation to assume that what we are dealing with here is the familiar disposition of many words , mentioned above , to vary in their referential effect according to the standard considered relevant for the type of the noun ; as if , to take the last sentence in ( 34 ) it was simply a matter of adjusting our standard of what counts as old from the range suitable for schools to the smaller one which is appropriate to individual human beings . |
| 11 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 12 | But I think that what we 're dealing with in developing countries is not so much erm an unwillingness to make themselves less vulnerable to disasters but much more erm they do n't have the resources . |
| 13 | How do we know that what we 're drawing into our lungs is n't doing us harm . |
| 14 | Erm , it would be unsafe , I think , to work on an assumption that what we 're going to er one post becoming available through natural wastage per year , and even that erm , highish I think . |
| 15 | We know about it before , always used to , we know that what we 're doing with B T is , you know , we 're starting up clapping . |
| 16 | We need to remind children that what we 're doing in drama is pretending . |
| 17 | It seems to me that what we 're talking about here is Harrogate 's land allocation being , not necessarily an I five , but sixty hectares which he agreed was adequate for I five yesterday , plus I suspect another fifty which would be a strategic site . |
| 18 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 19 | To some extent , it is also intuitively satisfying to suggest that what one is talking about always comes before what one has to say about it . |
| 20 | The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors . |
| 21 | You just knew that what he was saying about Quigley was true . |
| 22 | I assume that what you are hoping for is not merely a simple yes or a no , but some discussion of the matter , and I shall therefore take the liberty of presenting the evidence in some detail and at some length . |
| 23 | It 's steamed up between the layers is that what you 're looking at . |
| 24 | You 're wanting to produce a certificate for the kids is that what you 're talking about ? |
| 25 | The riposte must be that what it is coming to is that it is now technically possible to perform that operation , and naturally a huge demand for it has developed . |
| 26 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 27 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 28 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 29 | So than what we were talking about before you know ? |
| 30 | It is bigger than what I am doing to me … |