Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " 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 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 11 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 14 | ‘ So among what you might call the floating waiting population , there 's really only you . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So erm I 'm hoping to be able to do it , just off what I can do , m my experience as it is like . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 20 | Just like what they would do . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Make sure the list is based upon how you feel now — not upon what you used to enjoy , or think you ‘ should ’ enjoy , or what other people like to do . |
| 24 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 25 | ‘ Not beyond what he could hold , ’ said the Archdeacon firmly , as though stamping on a particularly pernicious untruth . |
| 26 | For we know not to what we should pray for as we ought . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's changed over the years , but it 's still for what I 'd like to think of as the intelligent , discerning young music fan . ’ |
| 29 | The headteacher say , ‘ Evidence showed that our community did value the work we do , that they want to know more about what we can offer and that they want to play an active part in their children 's pre-school experience . |
| 30 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |