Example sentences of "what [pron] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you could tell me what I 'm getting out of this turmoil I would be pleased to hear it . ’ |
| 2 | Can you see what I 'm holding up in my and this morning ? |
| 3 | Perhaps a good dose of stress is just what I 'm crying out for . |
| 4 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 5 | If you do it first , you 're gon na really understand what I 'm going on about . |
| 6 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 7 | That 's what I 'm going out for . |
| 8 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 9 | You 'll guess what I 'm leading up to . |
| 10 | What I was holding out for hung on a pretty slender thread and I could n't let my life be dominated by it . |
| 11 | Yes after Lucy about , er yes that was what I was getting around to , by that time of course I should be erm |
| 12 | They invited me to take part in the next one and I went along with them , having no idea what I was getting in to . |
| 13 | And it took about two minutes to twig what I was going on about ! |
| 14 | I had to consciously tell myself what I was going in for and not to use the trip downstairs as an excuse to have a ‘ little ’ rest on the sofa after my thirty-four minutes of hard work . |
| 15 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 16 | At this stage I do n't think he saw what I was leading up to . |
| 17 | I du n no what she 's going on about , so I do n't say nothing . |
| 18 | I do n't know what she 's going on about . |
| 19 | He speculated about what she was coming back to . |
| 20 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about dolphins , ’ said the leading lady of the entertainment show Give Us A Clue , ‘ but you just feel that they understand what you are going on about . |
| 22 | You need to be very familiar with the text , you ca n't learn it word-for-word for goodness sake , but you certainly are able to identify all the key issues and key aspects of it and that 's what you 're looking out for , so you could re-tell the story again , you can re-tell the story again yourself accurately , identifying all the key points . |
| 23 | Not really , just sort of helps you know what you what you 're picking up off the shelf . |
| 24 | I really am looking forward to seeing your entries but do n't forget to include photos of your garden so that we can see what you 're getting up to ! |
| 25 | This was a digitally-recorded album , so you 're just playing into a microphone and what you 're getting back through the headphones tends to be a little dry and sad . |
| 26 | Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody . |
| 27 | Still , I suppose you would have to develop a certain detachment , otherwise you 'd never be able to carry on with what you 're working on at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | in normal everyday things which I would n't otherwise have been aware of , and he 's been someone to have arguments with about science , and it 's nice to have someone who understands what you 're going on about . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's what you 're going on about , is n't it , Jannie ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know what you 're going on about . ’ |