Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] what [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a computer to help in your child 's education is fine , providing he or she understands what a keyboard is all about . |
| 2 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 3 | ‘ And no-one knows what the spell does ? ’ |
| 4 | Now , while I 'm the nation 's most inefficient gardener , I have visited more allotment sites than the pollution-control technician , and I know what a fetish most plot-holders make of composting , for very sound reasons of economy as well as ecology . |
| 5 | And I thought what a fool , none of them work |
| 6 | He read it aloud , then handed the paper back to her , and I thought what a pity it was to have to worry about that wretched boy on the one really good day we had had since our arrival . |
| 7 | yeah it was , oh it was terrible and I thought what a strain that must be on her heart , you know , carrying all that weight |
| 8 | And people walking on the pavement all it totally and I thought what a cheek . |
| 9 | and all that ruddy stuff , , I knew she 'd come along and put all , use to be a , he was the R S A man for the Signals and old Reggie , he was another R S A , he was headquarters company and old was in the cable laid section for people you know , came loose , I was walking through the shed and these two , I saw these two put them down , and I thought what the hell are you doing here ? |
| 10 | He said yes Mrs well then he followed me in the kitchen , stood behind me and I thought what the hell 's he hanging about for , I 'm gon na take it to him and the , his son- in-law was there |
| 11 | I was rather late back , when I got back I heard a knock on my bedroom door and she said it 's Miss and er I said , oh come in , I undid the door and she came in and er and so she said to me er , I just had a telephone message from Peel er to say that you have been subpoenaed to go the Police Court next Thursday and I said what a day out of my holiday and she said , well I 'm sorry but you 'll have to go . |
| 12 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 13 | And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre . |
| 14 | And I think what the questioner was asking for is , is probably adequately covered in the Christological section where we talk of giving hope and declaring forgiveness of sin . |
| 15 | Erm the answer would be no , they 've got to be sold at sometime and nobody knows what the market is going to do . |
| 16 | It is in fact something called Mad Meg 's Cairn and nobody knows what the hell it 's doing there . |
| 17 | It could happen crossing the street in Mondano , and you know what a menace those lorries can be . |
| 18 | But Neil he was gon na go down to Tesco 's but he is , Ipswich , ca n't get down here , so he ca n't sort of travel and you know what the hassle of having to take him and pick him up . |
| 19 | And you know what the voltage is |
| 20 | and the third might become a fourth , the fourth unlikely to become a fifth and you think what a waste of time that was . |
| 21 | After all , she had nothing to go on apart from what Terry Lewis had told her , and she knew what a liar he was . |
| 22 | Thus the storyteller and the compiler create in us , step by fearful step , a sense of foreboding , and when we learn at the start of chapter 4 that the Israelites are going into battle with the mighty Philistines , then our knees begin to tremble and we dread what the outcome might be . |
| 23 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 24 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 25 | culture , they know what an agent looks like and they know what a tour operator looks like and they know and they know one or two other people around and so on and so forth |
| 26 | She stared at him and he knew what the answer was going to be . |
| 27 | And he said what the heck will I do now when my savings is gone ? |
| 28 | And Julius Caesar stood in France in because he was in , the place he captured in France , and he could see Britain across the water and he wondered what the land was like over there . |
| 29 | He 's worked on the site for 46 years and he knows what a heritage museum would mean to the town . |
| 30 | Futch has been around boxing most of his life and he knows what an underdog can do if he gains confidence . |