Example sentences of "[adv] what [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course in rural situations this can be overcome by merely peeing outside , a course of action not open to you in the city , unless of course you live in London where it does n't matter much what you do in the street . |
| 2 | Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer . |
| 3 | So what we have inside the nucleus , we have two kinds of particle , the neutron , which is uncharged , and the proton which is positively charged . |
| 4 | So what you say about the rights of fathers is also about who is the ‘ real ’ father — the biological father or the man who cares for the child ? |
| 5 | Erm , but I wanted some cash , so what I did in the end was walked round Asda remembered it , or thought I remembered it , came back out put the erm card back in and the terminal came up erm it 's ok . |
| 6 | And so what it does after the first ten minutes , it says , look I 've had enough of this , what 's the grey haired old bugger on about now , oh , |
| 7 | Is it not a fact that due to Government policy local authorities will be building no new houses next year and housing associations will achieve only what they achieved in the mid-1970s ? |
| 8 | ‘ Well , obviously only what I read in the papers , ’ she began . |
| 9 | The government plans to announce shortly what it describes as the most far-reaching legislation since 1938 ( Editorial , Glasgow Herald 1989 ) . |
| 10 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 11 | You might want to describe some of these things : how your brother got into trouble whether you thought it was fair what you think of the school , generally what you think of the teachers how your brother refused to raise his arm how you intervened how you felt about speaking up how the incident ended what happened on the way home that night . |
| 12 | Well I do n't know it 's just what we liked at the time you know , we liked anything that was considered a bit way out then , you know |
| 13 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 14 | That 's just what I said during the news interview , was n't it ? |
| 15 | Just what I wanted at the time , to 'elp me keep me figure tidy . |
| 16 | Interviewers can not be sure of people 's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38 . |
| 17 | Which is just what he did on the actual day . |
| 18 | It delivers just what it promises in the shape of 10001 short paragraphs , each containing a simple practical idea which might be put into practice in our daily lives . |
| 19 | One of the strands of that concept is that even rational thought may not be just what it seems on the surface . |
| 20 | In fact , that is just what it did at the last election . |
| 21 | Less comforting , though , is the realization that this concept implies that there is no such thing as a fixed reality — which is exactly what we observe on the subatomic scale . |
| 22 | We may have to review exactly what we mean by the word ‘ paradox ’ — and , at the same time , rewrite many of our ideas of logic . |
| 23 | Before detailing the laws , we must decide exactly what we mean by the term " law " . |
| 24 | When the Opposition call for an independent consumer ombudsman , I suggest that that is exactly what they have under the present arrangements . |
| 25 | Of course , says East Anglian artist John Eno-Daynes , who yesterday demonstrated exactly what he meant at the Wilson Marriage Centre , Colchester . |
| 26 | Well Locke 's contemporaries would know exactly what he meant in the late seventeenth century . |
| 27 | A Having four kids of my own , I know exactly what you mean about the youngsters ! |
| 28 | However when you come to pin it down , you find that it is not all that easy to find bits which feature exactly what you want in the way and at the length you want them . |
| 29 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 30 | After all , Father left all his property to me , and as I say , that man trap is exactly what I need at the moment . |