Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] what [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 2 | Shy and modest , Pauline Ashley says only : ‘ I just do what a wife has to . |
| 3 | I just wondered what the Queen would say , let alone the duchess 's husband . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more |
| 5 | I just think what a load of rubbish . |
| 6 | I just wonder what the security was like at the base from which that plane took off in the States . ’ |
| 7 | I I I just wonder what the opposition would think if you decided that the criteria approach alone was not acceptable and you equally decided you had n't enough information to specify a location , where would that leave you ? |
| 8 | What I would say is I just wonder what the point of it is ed on the principal of of why fix something if if it ai n't broke , would n't it be better to perhaps spend officer 's time elsewhere rather than fashion designs of three colour printing on new leaflets ? |
| 9 | I do n't suppose I even knew what a pirate was , but I remember it vividly . |
| 10 | Education ha ooh I never know what the address of the stupid place is ! |
| 11 | I never twigged what the gold rush was . |
| 12 | ‘ But me old man says 'e never knows what the time is . ’ |
| 13 | You only see what the movement needs . |
| 14 | It was too late not to finish the sentence and she already knew what the sentence meant anyway … ‘ not long for this world — on his way out — dying ’ … words which were impossible to say . |
| 15 | Jews in another , and then the blacks , and you just think what a shame , if they all mix and you feel like , when I was in erm , working in North London , you had the Turkish and the Jewish people |
| 16 | Have you ever wondered what the heck Transportation Division get up to ? |
| 17 | 4 Can you now say what the boy 's weight is ? |
| 18 | You know if you run into Brando he 's gon na play mental chess with you , but if you run into Sinatra you never know what the game is . |
| 19 | the Lyceum Theatre is fully wheelchair accessible , we actually describe what the theatre , what kind of plays it shows |
| 20 | With me now to discuss what the budget means for more people in our area is Paul Sampson from Deloitt Hawkins and Sells . |
| 21 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 22 | Reinforce those opinions and attitudes already held where they still reflect what the company wants them to be , and thus protect the status quo . |
| 23 | Do n't let him ever remember what the sun-god told him , or it will be the worse for you . " |
| 24 | A few people never need to wear a watch because they always know what the time is . |
| 25 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 26 | Michael Parkinson , who presented the programme and added some credence to it by his presence , said afterwards : ‘ It just shows what a capacity television has for delusion . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't tell it not to do what a nome tells it to do . |
| 28 | Why does he not acknowledge what the impact of his tax on savings would do to investment ? |
| 29 | A slight break in the older man 's voice suggested he already suspected what the answer might be and was afraid . |
| 30 | I was dead against it , but he always did what the family wanted . |