Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [Wh det] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 2 | I am not precisely sure that I know what the right hon. Gentleman had in mind on sentencing policy , but I am happy to engage in exchanges outside . |
| 3 | Once I know what the other operettas will be , I shall work with her every day . |
| 4 | When planting new trees in your garden , make sure that you know what the mature heights are likely to be . |
| 5 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 6 | I find this emphasis generally correct in that it describes what the anorexic girl believes to lie in store for her as a woman : a passive role , a position of helplessness , a loss of self . |
| 7 | And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons . |
| 8 | He was captured , and you know what the French do . |
| 9 | David Walton , 40 , who received the aircraft today from Air Commodore David Hurrell , said : ‘ The likelihood of the aircraft taking to the sky again is fairly remote but it will be preserved in its current condition and who knows what the long term future holds . |
| 10 | So it 's a resounding happy birthday all round , and who knows what the next twenty one years will hold . |
| 11 | If you think what the Imperial in Torquay is anyway . |
| 12 | And we know what the Iraqi government would like , which is the release of their money frozen here since the Gulf war . |
| 13 | ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring . |
| 14 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 15 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 16 | But wait till you see what the old man did to some of the interior . " |
| 17 | Prebendary Wace of Canterbury praised the pamphlet during the 1899 Church Congress and Charles Gore , from the opposite wing of the Church , called it ‘ an extraordinarily important document , because it defined what the nineteenth century 's latest religion , ‘ undenominational Christianity ’ actually was . |
| 18 | since you know what the grim reaper does when he or she calls upon you . |
| 19 | That is what will happen when we get what the hon. Gentleman describes as the raw data . |
| 20 | Think , for example , about Scottish dancing , which one comes to understand as one learns what the right steps are . |
| 21 | Yeah as long as we know what the other 's doing . |
| 22 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 23 | At once Matthew relaxed , his eyes creasing in a smile as he wondered what the old man was up to . |