Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every evening , as I lift my key towards the lock of my own front door , the same thoughts formulate themselves — the same sudden loss of courage , in my case , the same leaden fear about what I shall find . |
| 2 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 4 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's no good thinking of what I might have done , Carrie . |
| 6 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 7 | For instance Balibar ( 1970 , p. 214 ) writes that the ‘ double function ’ of the capitalist ( at once exploiter of labour power and organiser of production ) ‘ is an index of what I shall call the double nature of the division of labour in production ( the ‘ technical ’ division of labour and the ‘ social ’ division of labour ) . ’ |
| 8 | But now , that seems a small compensation for what I would lose . ’ |
| 9 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 10 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It is not a question of what I can bear , but of what I have to put up with . ’ |
| 12 | This leads us to a fundamental distinction in the character of critical judgements , a distinction between what I shall call internal and external criteria of judgement . |
| 13 | In turning to the left criticism of Distant Voices , Still Lives and A Very British Coup , we need to make a distinction between what I shall term the ‘ core ’ and the ‘ periphery ’ journals . |
| 14 | I will start by drawing a distinction between what I will call social science history and hermeneutic history . |
| 15 | On the supporters ' calls for his removal , he said : ‘ The supporters wo n't change my opinion of what I 'd like to do at Darlington . |
| 16 | In 1982 , Rudi Fuchs came up with an accurate analysis of the new avant-garde movements in painting , and in 1987 Manfred Schneckenburger drew our attention to what I would call sociological considerations : art and culture , art and design , and so on . |
| 17 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 18 | Slightly towards one end , on the surface that was now uppermost on the table , rested a long , unevenly shaped darkish slab of what I might have thought was rough-faced granite . |
| 19 | Where you might require specialist advice in what I might describe as ‘ stand alone ’ projects , which in themselves will generate a report , for example , the founder directors requiring a due diligence report on the target company or advice on establishing share option schemes or other suitable management incentives for the new company , I would expect , following a more detailed discussion to provide a separate terms of reference and fee estimate . |
| 20 | There 's a limit to what I can endure . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There is practically no limit to what I can think of . ’ |
| 22 | Have you any advice on what I can do about it ? |
| 23 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 24 | I travelled to the plant to collect the guitar and was treated to a comprehensive tour of what I can confirm as an impressive facility of skilled and committed people in every department . |
| 25 | Satisfaction in the game comes from playing a lot of what I would call ‘ appropriate cricket ’ for the team . |
| 26 | I think I 've come to the end of what I can do . ’ |
| 27 | He does this gravely , perhaps fearing — with some justification from what I can see — that the whole thing might collapse like a car in a Laurel and Hardy movie , falling absolutely fiat on to the ground in its component parts . |
| 28 | There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ . |
| 29 | This , then , was the situation on what I shall call that Friday , early in the northern summer of 1984 . |
| 30 | I sneak a look at what I can see of the driver 's face , to check how he likes his boss 's sermon , but his face is wooden . |