Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] what [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to work off what you can get . |
| 2 | Part Two — Working in the ES — summarises the key points you will need to know about what you can expect in terms of support and entitlements from your new employer and other useful information ; and |
| 3 | The award asks children between the ages of nine and 12 to write about what they would like to do when they grow up . |
| 4 | Well it is possible of course and I think that er the European Nations , including those in Eastern Europe er ought to be getting together to consult about what we can do , because I do n't think it 's right simply to send these refugees back as the er Italians have been doing , er in fact there likely to be amongst . |
| 5 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 6 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 7 | I have no right to go against what I must presume to be his wishes ? ’ |
| 8 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 9 | Advice on Savings — how best to look after what you can afford to save . |
| 10 | I think we should attempt to focus on what we can do with the scarce resources that are available to us . |
| 11 | Sometimes I think the industry tends to focus on what we 'd like the customer to want , rather than what he or she actually wants . |
| 12 | This is a lucky time to focus on what you can make of yourself . |
| 13 | Joanne began to focus on what she could see as the positive aspects of the new approach , and while she did not specifically identify them as such , they were related to the process objectives within the scheme of work . |
| 14 | We believe that in education we have retained the core provision for the education service and we have to look at what we will call the peripheral areas to see where savings and reductions have to be made . |
| 15 | We have been expanding continuously since the mid-80s and we now have to look at what we can afford , ’ he went on . |
| 16 | We had to look at what we can afford to do in the future , and make sure that we had the right number of quality staff in the right places to carry out our programme . |
| 17 | We related to her how everything happened ; she exulted and gloried and was now blessing you ( O God ) who are able to do above what we can ask or conceive , because she recognized that with regard to me you have given her so much more than she used to beg for when she wept so pitifully before you . |
| 18 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 19 | For whatever it was in Underwood that attracted Clare , and that he himself lacked , seemed to derive from what she would call Underwood 's ‘ experience ’ , his ‘ maturity ’ — which meant quite simply , his sin . |
| 20 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 21 | Suffice it here to point to what we can call a third , or micro- , level of decision making , the other two being the level of allocating as between health and , for example , defence ; and the other , between different sections within health care . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that most Conservative Members accept that , while some taxes may fall on income and others on spending , there is scope for a modest tax to fall on what we might describe as the amenity of property . |
| 23 | But he had chosen to dress in what he may have conceived to be a British manner . |
| 24 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 25 | Just as you can not add up all the prices in a shop to arrive at what it would cost to buy the shop , nor can you add up the price of all a company 's shares to arrive at what the company is worth . |
| 26 | As I tried to think about what we should do , the day began to represent something we could work towards and almost look forward to , at a time when Waite 's kidnap had left us nothing to hope for . |
| 27 | I try even harder not to think about what he might do to me if he ever got the chance . |
| 28 | He would have to think about what he could do to get to ride her . |
| 29 | She asked me to think about what I could do to protect myself . |
| 30 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |