Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What no-one condones is raking the head and we just still ca n't accept what happened to Victor Ubogu on the B tour last year when his ear was almost sliced away from his head . ’ |
| 2 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 3 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 4 | What everyone feared was getting slammed into one of the Pipeline cavities like a golfball into a hole and not being able to get out again . |
| 5 | This is what everyone 's been waiting for . |
| 6 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 7 | In soft-back format with 150 pages , the new , revised edition of See What I Mean is co-authored by John Morgan and Peter Welton , who is well-known to readers of The Artist as a holiday course tutor and regular contributor . |
| 8 | ‘ What I mean is do you for instance know the three-times table ? ’ |
| 9 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 10 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
| 12 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
| 13 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 14 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 15 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 16 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 17 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 18 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 19 | What I assume was meant was that his birth had somehow been retarded , so that he was born a day later . |
| 20 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 21 | Occasionally I was lucid enough to remember that I must never write about what was going on , or what I thought was going on . |
| 22 | And I mean I put an asterisk down there to say that 's what I thought was going to come out quite heavily simply because this is is the case on these courses , you know the people that we get on these courses every single one of these that we 've had , and we must have had coming up to what over ten now , every single one we 've had people that the most the majority of people have had team work very high on the score . |
| 23 | And what I thought was happening , you see , was that , if you can imagine this kind of psychological or metaphysical equilibrium point that we all start from , then I , I sort of perceptually changed . |
| 24 | What I like is combining something strict with something free — it creates ambiguity and I love ambiguity . |
| 25 | What I advocate is exuding an aura of femaleness . |
| 26 | We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see . |
| 27 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
| 28 | You ought to hear what I 've been hearing . |
| 29 | Well I I actually must have read completely different to anybody else from what I 've been hearing , erm the way I looked at it , the situation that we have locally compared with what David was saying about the national erm what government are doing nationally and the situation we have here in Cambridge city . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's what I 've been called , ’ she agrees : ‘ ambassador for the chimps . ’ |