Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] what they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 2 | The award asks children between the ages of nine and 12 to write about what they would like to do when they grow up . |
| 3 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 4 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
| 5 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 6 | Bills would arrive and I 'd just leave them unopened , frightened of what they 'd say . |
| 7 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 8 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 9 | When we have what one might call this coarse-cut overview , we then have tended to approach the businesses and ask them to produce a variety of scenarios ranging from what they would like to do in a totally free world with access to unlimited money , to the extremes of divestiture at the other end . |
| 10 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 11 | ‘ If we spend our time worrying about what they can do we 're as good as dead . ’ |
| 12 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 13 | By three both felt certain something was wrong and a nervous debate began about what they should do . |
| 14 | In the 1990s the report of these professional organizations who constituted a separate industry , was based on what they could discover about the applicant 's known record to date as regards prompt and full payment , on the applicant 's own assertions and , controversially ( because of possible contravention of the Data Protection Act ) information volunteered upon questioning by third parties . |
| 15 | Lenders ' policy varies on what they will allow remortgage funds to be used for . |
| 16 | Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside . |
| 17 | ‘ I can see I shall have to tell you more about Brownies before you believe in what they can do and do do . |
| 18 | Many people today only believe in what they can see and touch and so they do n't believe in spirits , demons , angels or even God ! |
| 19 | Children should be judged on what they can do and on what they know , not on who they are . |
| 20 | While ‘ real consciousness ’ might be what people in a given group actually think , it does not necessarily correspond to what they will do or how they will respond to changes either in their situation or in the information they have . |
| 21 | My plea to the Government , therefore , is that they concentrate on what they can do , and that is to improve the long-term prospects for the economy . |
| 22 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 23 | Now such infants are too young even to organize a so-called visually-guided reach ( that is , reaching for what they can see ) . |
| 24 | The tribe sang a song to thank the Great Spirits and everyone thought about what they could offer as a sacrifice . |
| 25 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |
| 26 | In a city-centre bar , the four members of Eugenius are convening for what they might call work . |
| 27 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 28 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 29 | Both the armies of this pincer movement probably travelled quickly , without extensive commissary , relying on what they could pick up as they laid the land waste . |
| 30 | They may have some specific items that are to be bought but they also have a general readiness to look around and be tempted by what they might see . |