Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] what [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any queries about what we can do for you , please do n't hesitate to call us on |
| 2 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 3 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 4 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |
| 5 | It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future . |
| 6 | Discussions about what they should wear had been interspersed with sexy gossip concerning the star of the occasion , Nathan Bryce . |
| 7 | This would not be a problem if it was n't for another silly set of rules about what you must wear . |
| 8 | At the outset Helen Martini said the prospects of what they had taken on were daunting , but she had no doubts about what they could accomplish . |
| 9 | So Taylor took Lineker into the European Championship as his first choice marksman , but with big doubts about what he would contribute . |
| 10 | ‘ These people ca n't just blow in with their grand illusions about what they can do in Northern Ireland , with this ‘ big brother ’ attitude that America can solve everyone 's problems . |
| 11 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 12 | Up and down the country , Opposition Front-Benchers have come out with protestations about what they will give this , that and the other interest group ; the document will make clear the order of priorities , and will begin to explain how the expenditure will be paid for . |
| 13 | Her imagination jagged with tumbling violent images of what he might do to her . |
| 14 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 15 | IMHO there are only 3 possible contenders from what I would call the ‘ managerial school ’ : |
| 16 | But , since she could n't do anything about the car situation until that wretched part had been delivered , should n't she concentrate her worries on what she could do something about ? |
| 17 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 18 | Four of them are in cities of what you might regard as being of particular interest — Tripoli , Beirut , Damascus and Baghdad . ’ |
| 19 | The reasons for this deficit are largely associated with the , the trend of pay and price increases outstripping our income , and outstripping our projections of what we would have to spend . |
| 20 | Two were also Products of what one might call the orifice revolution , i.e. gaining entry to the inside of the body other than by cutting into it from the outside . |
| 21 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
| 22 | The constitutional separation does not prevent some Members of Parliament echoing the condemnation of the tabloid press in intemperately criticizing individual judges for what they may consider to be an unduly lenient sentence . |
| 23 | This turns the analyses into what I shall call ‘ associative ’ feminist psychologies . |
| 24 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 25 | Given the conditions in which most teachers are working , and given that they are human beings — that is , they have limitations on what they can do , and how well and how fast they can do it — they could not be feeling otherwise than rushed and confused , nor acting otherwise than fallibly . |
| 26 | Furthermore , there are certain limitations to what we can learn from science because the concept of replication does not obtain in police investigation . |
| 27 | For instance , the panel members in the YPLL study were asked to respond to a number of statements about what they would do if they had a problem . |
| 28 | Practically , this is ensured by the governments being composed of parties which have to compete for votes at elections , on the basis of promises about what they will do if they get back into government next time . |
| 29 | The other major seems to be , to do with ideas about what we would qualify , but could equally well be called ritual purity and impurity . |
| 30 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |