Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 2 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 3 | Good only for what it can do . |
| 4 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 5 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 6 | It 's on a house is only worth what somebody will give . |
| 7 | The next morning brought more early arrivals ; namely , the two ladies from Germany — who had travelled together despite what one would have imagined to have been the great contrast in their backgrounds — bringing with them a large team of ladies-in-waiting and footmen , as well as a great many trunks . |
| 8 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 9 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 10 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 11 | They cobble workings together from whatever they can scrape up . |
| 12 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
| 13 | If some studies of style are of doubtful value because of their emphasis on quantitative methods , the opposite tendency to rely entirely on what we may call stylistic intuition has , if anything , been even more prevalent . |
| 14 | For , oh , how awful is the seizure of the invisible , last enemy , sitting in triumph over the body , which is all over which he can have power . ’ |
| 15 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 16 | ‘ So among what you might call the floating waiting population , there 's really only you . ’ |
| 17 | The educated person is characterised less by what she can do , and more by what the process of learning and knowing has done to her . |
| 18 | I can not keep her any longer for what she can afford to pay , and she would like you to find her accommodation near where you live . |
| 19 | So erm I 'm hoping to be able to do it , just off what I can do , m my experience as it is like . |
| 20 | It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen . |
| 21 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 22 | Just like what they would do . |
| 23 | Sometimes his Spidergob mates gave him a bit of a skragging on account of it ; not like what you 'd skrag a Mad Dog or a Scarface , if you ever got the chance , ‘ course . |
| 24 | She wanted to turn tail and run and keep on running away from him , away from what she might discover , away from what could only break her heart , yet she knew that was impossible . |
| 25 | hello there … welcome to the empty manager 's office at the Manor Ground … the desk is clear … the chair vacant who will take over from Brian Horton … we 've a competition for you tonight in which you can vote for who you want to be the new Oxford United manager … but what a weekend it 's been and Central South of course was first with the news that shook the football world … |
| 26 | hello there … welcome to the empty manager 's office at the Manor Ground … the desk is clear … the chair vacant who will take over from Brian Horton … we 've a competition for you tonight in which you can vote for who you want to be the new Oxford United manager … but what a weekend it 's been and Central South of course was first with the news that shook the football world … |
| 27 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 28 | ‘ Not beyond what he could hold , ’ said the Archdeacon firmly , as though stamping on a particularly pernicious untruth . |
| 29 | For we know not to what we should pray for as we ought . |
| 30 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |