Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Neither of you will face criminal charges , though it would only be justice after what you 're doing to my sister . |
| 2 | ‘ At least we know something of what we 're getting into , ’ the Doctor said , optimistic as ever . |
| 3 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
| 4 | Erm and erm and then obviously that 's something round in the region of what we 're looking for . |
| 5 | We get a lot of what we 're working for , right now . |
| 6 | I mean I think that I would , really a lot of what we 're talking about here is actually male chauvinism |
| 7 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 8 | So that 's , that 's , I mean you can give a very precise mathematical definitions of what we 're talking about . |
| 9 | Have you any idea of what we 're talking about ? ’ |
| 10 | There can be no justification for the comments we have heard from certain leaders of right wing er trade unions , who wish to take away the very principle of what we 're talking about , the block vote , especially one , when one of 'em , allegedly , who have n't even bothered to pay their contributions to the General Election Fund . |
| 11 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 12 | Let me let me cite a commercial organization which , to give you an idea , I know you 're not commercial in that particular sense , of what we 're talking about . |
| 13 | Okay so do you want to run us through some of the things that we have n't really discussed in detail of what we 're gon na talk about in here today , specifically have we , I mean I thought something along the lines of er the nature and extent of sexual variations in English , or any other language you want . |
| 14 | We have focus we have a direction we maintain the fiscal control we are aware of what we 're doing as a church we have the the members commitment indeed , we have their involvement in what we want to do . |
| 15 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 16 | Part of what we are striving for as a necessity of our being is simply survival in physical and mental health . |
| 17 | Even with minerals and lost objects we have a reasonably clear idea of what we are looking for and the dowser can be proved right or wrong . |
| 18 | Much of the difficulty of identification is caused by an almost complete ignorance of what we are looking for . |
| 19 | Referring expressions fulfil a dual purpose of unifying the text ( they depend upon some of the subject matter remaining the same ) and of economy , because they save us from having to repeat the identity of what we are talking about again and again . |
| 20 | There 's also the whole of notion of what we are saying by our ministry together . |
| 21 | They invited the Spanish and local press to watch us train , which is exactly the opposite of what we were hoping for . |
| 22 | He was in no state to form an idea of what we were talking about . |
| 23 | His competitors , in turn , once they become aware of what they are competing against , are forced to sweeten still further the opportunities they make available to the market ; and so on . |
| 24 | drawing up a list of questions in advance , is advised for standard interviews , so that comparison between candidates is easier and the interviewers have a clear idea of what they are looking for ; |
| 25 | The most interesting condition occurs under item 9 ( Liability of seller ) : Under the Trade Descriptions Act , SLAD may not stipulate the period of time of this warranty , but it recommends that its members guarantee the authenticity of what they are selling for a period of six years . |
| 26 | They will often utter the crucial part of what they are saying as a ‘ throwaway ’ line at the end . |
| 27 | John CW Symon ( Points of View , today ) writes : ‘ It would seem obvious that young hooligans do not think of the consequences of their actions … quite likely they do not think of what they are doing as ‘ crime ’ at all … |
| 28 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 29 | Moreover , agents of the process may be genuinely unaware of what they are doing for as long as they see good professional practice as unitary , consensual and unproblematic . |
| 30 | ‘ In order to get that Job , Scott , you have to clarify one thing in your mind — a picture of what they 're looking for as an anchorman . ’ |