Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three , four years ago the seeds of what we know today as desktop publishing were being sown by companies like Xerox , Interleaf , Sun and Apollo . |
| 2 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 3 | Best stay with what we have rather than try to change for something else . |
| 4 | People will go along with what you want rather than actively supporting you . |
| 5 | For best results it is advisable to find a specialist in what you want rather than one whose main business is divorces , conveyancing or racehorses . |
| 6 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 7 | Many people believe that the condition of a horse 's coat depends on what you feed rather than how you groom , but whatever your views there is no doubt that as long as his feet are picked out and the parts where the tack touches are clean he will come to no harm . |
| 8 | That depends entirely on what you do together after you meet her or him . |
| 9 | He is polite and very careful about what he says so as not to offend anyone . |
| 10 | you move on about what you did then as your next |
| 11 | One explained : ‘ I have to be careful about what I say publicly because it is just not acceptable to be seen adding to the depression . ’ |
| 12 | If they were assertive and asked for what they wanted rather than ‘ manipulated ’ , they would in many cases be more successful . |
| 13 | An alternative perspective comes from looking at what they did rather than what they said . |