Example sentences of "what [vb -s] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 2 | What impresses me in Messner is the combination he has of immense boldness and analytical power . |
| 3 | What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's what bugs me about the experience . |
| 5 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 6 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 7 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |
| 8 | Expense , though , is not what turns me off . |
| 9 | Well I 'd say nine out of ten , cos I have n't heard about what turns me on yet . |
| 10 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 11 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 12 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 13 | What irritates me most about him is his way of speaking . |
| 14 | Sure the world needs more love in it ; sure , the brutal and uncaring hold the reins ; sure , some people have no choice about having their lives wasted — but I celebrate the brutal and wasteful in music because I know what fascinates me , and it 's not this ghastly New Wave soul with-the-one-saxophone-tacked-on . |
| 15 | Specifically , what fascinates me is how the operations of the billions of nerve cells that cohabit inside our skulls to form our brains are capable of giving rise to our actions and our conscious experience . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's what fascinates me , really . |
| 17 | ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms . |
| 18 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 19 | I have studied myself and I know what drives me . |
| 20 | That is something of what haunts me . |
| 21 | What lies I was telling ! |
| 22 | What amazes me , apart from the instant MGM jungle scenery that leaps out of the walls the minute you walk in , the way the carpet has become an over the rainbow poppy field , only it 's rose petals , what amazes me is we do n't run out of things to say . |
| 23 | What amazes me , apart from the instant MGM jungle scenery that leaps out of the walls the minute you walk in , the way the carpet has become an over the rainbow poppy field , only it 's rose petals , what amazes me is we do n't run out of things to say . |
| 24 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 25 | What amazes me is that young families on income support can get almost any accompanying benefit , yet I am expected to meet these bills in full . |
| 26 | ‘ They all think they 're going to suffer by it too , that 's what amazes me . |
| 27 | What amazes me though he just do n't seemed to of . |
| 28 | I tell you what amazes me , Mary , he takes , he can take a conference , when they have a big do he puts them there for the , you know for their dinner or whatever they |
| 29 | Well that 's not what amazes me , eighty gardens . |
| 30 | No what amazes me Mr Chairman is that here we are , we 're being cost conscious on every ground and we 're saying we 're making a statement that we enter into an exercise that we have no idea , we 're not asking for the actual cost , we are asking , we are asking you must of had an idea what it would cost or I feel Mr Chairman that that , can I put it mildly , lack of planning and certainly financial planning possibly |