Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 2 | The latter makes up what she says on the spot depending on the enquiry . |
| 3 | Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt . |
| 4 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 6 | In fact , what she does on the ice is scorch it up . |
| 7 | I could never cram in what she does in a day ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | So I can show Donna and see what she thinks of the list ? |
| 12 | He said he did n't want her harmed until we find out what she knows about the book . |
| 13 | Owing to what she sees as a lack of gratitude , she threatens to refuse to continue with the caring tasks . |
| 14 | She is impatient with politics , and with what she sees as the marginalism of the Greens . |
| 15 | Whilst she frequently attacks Marxism and Communism , it is not simple political opposition , but rather an attack on what she sees as the effects of the spread of Marxism for Christianity , for ‘ it is of no mean significance that the secular/humanist/Marxist philosophy makes the destruction of Christianity one of its main priorities . |
| 16 | In highlighting what she sees as the essence of the characters , Ms Meckler often misses their comic contradictions and ambiguities . |
| 17 | Even Baumrind ( 1982 ) , supporting Gilligan 's different voice hypothesis against what she sees as the traditionalism of the psychology of androgyny , holds on to the traditional framework of Jungian psychology in order to do this , and later ( 1986 ) , reinterprets the hypothesis in a humanist and spiritual framework , which is not differentiated by gender . |
| 18 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 19 | Her sensitivity at all times to what will run in Cabinet is genuine , even though she always lets colleagues know what she wants at the outset of any discussion . |
| 20 | So did I. Ms Boyd was wearing bright red trainers which were certainly against regulations for any decent regiment of the line , despite what one hears about the Guards these days . |
| 21 | The other essential attribute is obviously that of being able to link what one perceives through the brain to what one is doing with one 's body . |
| 22 | It would be an interminable occupation were it not for the fact that what one learns about the landscape of one town often throws a flash of light upon a topographical puzzle in another . |
| 23 | Time and time again the reviewers in Early music have attacked ideas and suppositions of a kind that characterize much modern culture but which were strengthened in the 1960s : that one should be allowed to do what one wishes without the interference of authority ; that every kind of self-expression is equally valid because it is self-expression , and so on . |
| 24 | Not what one expects from a headmaster . |
| 25 | Tom Kalinske , president of Sega US , adds : ‘ All we are really doing is interpreting what one sees in the world today and making some form of game play out of it . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps a trained nurse is n't quite what one wants at a time like this , ’ Sophia agreed . |
| 27 | As a well-known London character with a penchant for miniature kites , and a lecturer on sewing standards , his advice supplements what one finds in the manufacturers ' manuals . |
| 28 | what he/she regards as the perspective of the other family member and |
| 29 | Gandhi could certainly quote the teaching of the Gītā in support of this view , but it would still not detract from what he says about the demoralizing , degrading , and brutalizing effects of war . |
| 30 | Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them . |