Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] what [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly some very large forces have disrupted the outer regions of the Solar System at some stage , or stages , in the past , but we have no idea of when or of what they might have been . |
| 2 | Which can be up to ten years , providing that does n't take your service over forty years at the age of sixty or over what you would have attained had you remained in service until the age of sixty five . |
| 3 | I did n't really think at all , not about where I was going , nor about what I would do when I got there . |
| 4 | And he had no idea of where to go , and how to find her — nor of what he would say to her when he did find her , either at the embassy or anywhere else she might have gone . |
| 5 | And for what you would do , if I let you live . |
| 6 | It all seemed too important for that : a warning of what was inside us all as human beings and of what we must avoid at all costs . |
| 7 | Alan was well aware of his own gifts and of what they might lead him to become , but I am not sure he entirely welcomed his role as a leader of lesser men . |
| 8 | Both speakers will give an account of their work and of what they would like from a supervisor . |
| 9 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 10 | It was his conception , his baby , and for it he would tolerate most things , including his suspicion of Trotskyism — whether of the IMG or IS variety — and of what he may have seen as Rowbotham 's ‘ hippy sentimentality ’ . |
| 11 | Thus Sir William Trumbull , when he was sent as English ambassador to Paris in 1685 , was told that : You shall constantly correspond with our ministers in other foreign courts , for our better service , and your mutual information and assistance in your respective negotiations ; and you shall also maintain a good correspondence and intercourse with all the other ambassadors , envoys and ministers of princes and states in amity with us , and as far as you can penetrate into the designs of their respective superiors , and of what you can discover of this nature you shall give us a constant account by one of our Principal Secretaries of State . |
| 12 | There 's a good few people around this quarter afraid of you and of what you can do when you open your mouth . |
| 13 | After checking this balancing they increased the current further to three times the starting value , and discovered an excess heat output of ten per cent over and above what they could account for going in . |
| 14 | He is confident , brave and agile , and from what we can gather he is rated the best in America . |
| 15 | The interior of the bus was lit only by a small torch made to look like an old lamp , the type you see in Westerns , and from what I could see I was glad there was no more light . |
| 16 | ‘ Her name 's Louise , ’ Christina volunteered , ‘ and from what I can gather she 's madly in love with him . ’ |
| 17 | Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out . |
| 18 | She had fur-backed gloves and high brown-polished boots , not shoes but boots , and from what she could see of them they looked serviceable , as if they really were worn for walking . |
| 19 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |
| 20 | ‘ They had a wonderful pioneering style and pride both in what they had achieved and in what they could teach you . |
| 21 | The aim is to test children both in what they know and in what they can do . |
| 22 | From this perspective the nature of modern democratic regimes , and the setbacks and limitations which they experience , are intimately connected with the class structure and the relations between classes as they have developed both in capitalist and in what I shall call ( for the moment ) post-capitalist societies . |
| 23 | Make sure that there is a briefing before the visit — that people know why they are going and on what they should concentrate their attention . |
| 24 | His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses . |
| 25 | But from what he could see , he was in a private room in some hospital , to judge from the clinically white decor and the chrome steel stand by the bedside , holding the I.V . |
| 26 | And they are , they are interested in cyclists but from what I could make out reading this they 're not really going to help us a great deal . |
| 27 | Amitha : I was n't involved in setting up the Group , having then not accepted my lesbian identity , but from what I could see there was a lot of resentful and suspicious comparison between the BWG and the LGWG . |
| 28 | But from what I can gather from his scrawls you 're doing a good job . ’ |
| 29 | It may not be a perfect match , but from what I can gather , it 's as near as dammit . ’ |
| 30 | It was n't a slum terrace , as she had expected , but from what she could make out through the moonlight they were good working-class houses , each with its small rectangle of iron-railed garden in front . |