Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any queries about what we can do for you , please do n't hesitate to call us on |
| 2 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 3 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 4 | Er I mean I , I mean have we really thought this through because er if we 're an anticipating having hundred , hundred and fifty people here which I suppose is of course about what we would hope for , the response that NUPE er as you know they would need to actually achieve the yes vote , I mean we need this sort of room full er would n't it not be more sensible to split up between co or not , would it not be normal for the tutor to expect the group to split up to address specific areas like , I do n't know , Labour Party membership , erm finance , I do n't know , whatever |
| 5 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |
| 6 | It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future . |
| 7 | Melissa will make her own decision about what she will read . ’ |
| 8 | Discussions about what they should wear had been interspersed with sexy gossip concerning the star of the occasion , Nathan Bryce . |
| 9 | This would not be a problem if it was n't for another silly set of rules about what you must wear . |
| 10 | At the outset Helen Martini said the prospects of what they had taken on were daunting , but she had no doubts about what they could accomplish . |
| 11 | So Taylor took Lineker into the European Championship as his first choice marksman , but with big doubts about what he would contribute . |
| 12 | Every evening , as I lift my key towards the lock of my own front door , the same thoughts formulate themselves — the same sudden loss of courage , in my case , the same leaden fear about what I shall find . |
| 13 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 14 | Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams . |
| 15 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 16 | I 'll get you some sandwiches and some more tea and once you 've eaten we can get down to some practical thinking about what you can do next . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ These people ca n't just blow in with their grand illusions about what they can do in Northern Ireland , with this ‘ big brother ’ attitude that America can solve everyone 's problems . |
| 18 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 19 | Up and down the country , Opposition Front-Benchers have come out with protestations about what they will give this , that and the other interest group ; the document will make clear the order of priorities , and will begin to explain how the expenditure will be paid for . |
| 20 | Though the social survey method was not extensively used in Chicago-inspired studies , and there was some scepticism about what it could achieve for sociology compared to field research , with the appointment of Ogburn in 1927 , a statistically trained sociologist , the pace of the development of quantitative methods quickened . |
| 21 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 22 | There is no hard and fast rule about what you should gain in pregnancy . |
| 23 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 25 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 26 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's no good thinking of what I might have done , Carrie . |
| 28 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 29 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 30 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |