Example sentences of "[noun sg] of what [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's no good thinking of what I might have done , Carrie . |
| 4 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 5 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 6 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 7 | Those who like Jenny in our case-study find themselves avoiding conflict at all costs , never facing up to issues , never expressing hurt or anger for fear of what it might release in others , need to do some work on this point . |
| 8 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 9 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 10 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 11 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 14 | Yet the effect of what you can play should be that you hear what Brahms wrote down , even if you do n't follow his notation absolutely to the dot . |
| 15 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 16 | He , too , is constrained in his interpretation by past similar experience , by interpreting in the light of what we might call the principle of analogy . |
| 17 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |
| 18 | Below are realistic estimates of costs for full-board accommodation in University-controlled Halls of Residence and the private sector in an attempt to provide a realistic assessment of what you may incur in each of these accommodation sectors . |
| 19 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit . |
| 22 | Mares carrying their first fetus produce much higher levels of antibodies if the fetus is a horse than if it is a mule , the exact opposite of what one would expect . |
| 23 | Diametric offers a unique design service ; send a sketch or short description of what you would like for a particular room or purpose , and it will work out and cost the design . |
| 24 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 25 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 26 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 27 | 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 ) . ’ |
| 28 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 29 | One of the most admired features of the educational systems in France , Germany , and Denmark is the way they integrate a substantial proportion of what we would call ‘ general education ’ into their vocational programmes . |
| 30 | 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 . |