Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 2 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 3 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 4 | When pressed and asked , ’ What if British Steel refuses to change its policy after talking ? ’ the Opposition gave no indication of what they would do . |
| 5 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 6 | So should voters , it would be rather absurd I think , well Mill thinks , that if jurors were expected to come to a decision on the basis of what they would prefer , would you prefer this person to be sent down or would you prefer them to get off . |
| 7 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 8 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is the same with all new expressions : there is one colour for what the trainees need to understand ( what they will hear ) and another colour for what they will need to use ( what they will say ) . |
| 11 | It has to be done , thought Taliesin , torn between agony for Fergus and the knowledge of what they must do . |
| 12 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 13 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 14 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 15 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 16 | He also believes that despite the crowd 's impatience with what they might think is play-acting , 95pc of players who get treatment on the field really do need it . |
| 17 | However , some radiation will still find its way around even these substantial barriers , increasing the exposure to the workforce above what they would expect from the ‘ natural ’ radiation given off by the sun or the earth . |
| 18 | Today , newspapers are entirely free from direct government control over what they can print . |
| 19 | It should be noted that what I have called a two-stage golden thread approach implies that human beings have some kind of control over what they will say is right . |
| 20 | However , as some compensation for this , there is not usually any fixed limit on what they can receive . |
| 21 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 22 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 23 | ‘ No matter , it will serve as a useful antidote to what they will try and inculcate you with at school , that 's its chief virtue . |
| 24 | This gives the customers some choice about what they will have for each meal , and when they have it . |
| 25 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 26 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 27 | They do n't come and look at your 'ouse , they come have a look at what they can do with it , you now , have a look like , why you got extension and , |
| 28 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 29 | If children fear that their parents will stop loving them when they are naughty , they soon absorb the idea of what they must do . |
| 30 | If Sacu is to choose the latter road , the NSC may have to give them a clearer idea of what they will meet as they travel along it . |