Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [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 | If you think what the Imperial in Torquay is anyway . |
| 10 | And we know what the Iraqi government would like , which is the release of their money frozen here since the Gulf war . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But wait till you see what the old man did to some of the interior . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | since you know what the grim reaper does when he or she calls upon you . |
| 15 | That is what will happen when we get what the hon. Gentleman describes as the raw data . |
| 16 | Yeah as long as we know what the other 's doing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At once Matthew relaxed , his eyes creasing in a smile as he wondered what the old man was up to . |