Example sentences of "[prep] what they [vb mod] [vb infin] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see I shall have to tell you more about Brownies before you believe in what they can do and do do . |
| 2 | Many people today only believe in what they can see and touch and so they do n't believe in spirits , demons , angels or even God ! |
| 3 | They were walking round the house speculating as to what they should sell and had paused here in this far from gloomy room , this warm , sunny , charming room , and laughed at that gloomy picture , at its sentimental naivety . |
| 4 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
| 5 | P. A friendly person , someone who is good to session with , someone who can appreciate someone else 's skating and not to judge them as to what they can do but also who they are and how they are . |
| 6 | While ‘ real consciousness ’ might be what people in a given group actually think , it does not necessarily correspond to what they will do or how they will respond to changes either in their situation or in the information they have . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 9 | Children should be judged on what they can do and on what they know , not on who they are . |
| 10 | Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside . |
| 11 | And er they used to come to me and ask things about what they should do and did I think they had a claim for this and that you know , and I used to tell them you see . |
| 12 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |