Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt . |
| 2 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 4 | I could never cram in what she does in a day ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I can do in a day what she does in a week , ’ she said , shaking her duster out of the window on to the roses below . |
| 6 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 7 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
| 8 | Owing to what she sees as a lack of gratitude , she threatens to refuse to continue with the caring tasks . |
| 9 | Not what one expects from a headmaster . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps a trained nurse is n't quite what one wants at a time like this , ’ Sophia agreed . |
| 11 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
| 12 | " Know what he does for a living ? " |
| 13 | You do n't even know what he does for a living properly ! ’ |
| 14 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 15 | It seems unreal that Perry could even consider dissolving Jane 's , given what he makes of a stage with them . |
| 16 | In Poland , even one outside adviser to the World Bank worries openly about what he sees as a lack of feeling among Mr Balcerowicz and his advisers for the political realities around them . |
| 17 | Now an academic , he 's alarmed at what he sees as a policy reversal on cautioning . |
| 18 | if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones … |
| 19 | The House of Commons has the right to say first what it thinks of a Bill . |
| 20 | The multiplicity of utterance meanings does not mean that any linguistic expression can mean anything at all in complete disregard of what it means as a sentence . |
| 21 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Member for Easington ( Mr. Cummings ) referred graphically to Murton colliery in the north-east and spoke about what it means to a community to lose 600 jobs . |
| 23 | By calculating the cost of doing something wrong or ‘ the price of non-conformance , ’ it is possible to understand just what it means to a business in monetary terms . |
| 24 | Just , you 're just known as an A one , I 'll explain what it means in a minute . |
| 25 | ITV is understood to be concerned about what it sees as a weakening of its expensive agreement by individual clubs . |
| 26 | The Conservative government has attempted to replace what it sees as a dependency culture by an enterprise culture . |
| 27 | Erm what it counts as a spelling error is if the word is n't in the dictionary , it 's a spelling error . |