Example sentences of "of what [pron] [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 2 | And I hated the anglers with their sharp hooks and their lack of understanding of what they were doing to the fish they plucked so gleefully from their wet world into our dry one . |
| 3 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 4 | Particularly if you 're involved in different activities , different project work , colour coding because it appeals to the right side of your brain , erm , whereas a lot of what you 're going to be doing , I assume , is going to be fairly brained activity , erm , could , could work very well for you . |
| 5 | The dreadfulness of what I am doing to her , what I am going to do to her makes me feel ill . |
| 6 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 7 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ I agreed quickly without the faintest idea of what I was agreeing to . |
| 8 | The child must be fully aware of what he is consenting to and what the possible consequences may be . |
| 9 | It gives one quite a strong idea of what it 's going to be like to be a corpse . ’ |
| 10 | And a large part of what it was teaching to the Germans it had learned from the Romans . |