Example sentences of "what [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 2 | The French students commented on the relaxed and friendly atmosphere in the college and were envious of what seemed to them to be very small classes . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the price of cattle fell from £5 a head to £1 a head shortly after this arrangement was made , and the Masai found themselves being asked to pay more and more for what seemed to them to be less and less — for some of the waterworks had already begun to fail . |
| 4 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 5 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 6 | One of the most vocal critics of reorganization , an officer of more than 20 years ' standing , deplored what seemed to him to be an essential transformation in pollution control work . |
| 7 | " Well , then , " she continued , with what seemed to her to be the very height of aware sophistication , " why ever did you want to come here on this sort of trip ? " |
| 8 | Molly turned the paper over and found a list of figures prefixed with lire signs and equipped with what seemed to her to be generous allowances of noughts . |
| 9 | She followed that up with what seemed to her to be the inevitable question : ‘ Well , are you a virgin then ? ’ |
| 10 | He secured some West Riding support for what came to him to be a cause , but his own town , proud of its independence in educational provision , was reluctant to set up a school board after the Education Act of 1870 . |
| 11 | Underline what seem to you to be the main or key words in the passage , including all names and any words beginning with capital letters . |
| 12 | Some time in the early hours of the morning we cross over what seems to me to be a pontoon bridge , then suddenly we are up to our thighs in water . |
| 13 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
| 14 | Moderator I declare my interest as a member of the panel on doctrine but I wanted to enquire whether Professor would be willing to include not only the problem of anti-semitism but what seems to me to be the opposite problem which also exists today , which is the problem of Zionism . |
| 15 | But under section 83(1) the building society , if rectification were ordered , would have what seems to me to be an unimpeachable statutory right to an indemnity against the loss it would thereby suffer . |
| 16 | I have already put a good deal of stress upon two contrasted aspects of what seems to me to be the central paradox of anthropology considered as an intellectual discipline . |
| 17 | Well what I know the answer is is to say do n't worry be concerned but do n't worry because worrying does n't do you no good , it does n't do the condition no good and it does n't do everybody else any good either because they just say oh she 's you know what she is , depressed by whatever it is and that 's , as it were , objectively logical but wh wh what seems to me to be the absolutely overwhelming is to say he 's not worried , he 's desperately concerned , he 's more concerned than humans can possibly be but if god is n't worried , what on earth are we burning up our resources worrying about because if he 's not worried concerned yes , but he 's not worried . |
| 18 | Casual references by our political leaders to what seems to them to be the quite recent past can be lost on a young audience . |
| 19 | This fabliau makes explicit a linkage between vagina and mouth that we find implied elsewhere amongst the fabliaux : e.g. in Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons , " The knight who made the cunts talk " , or Berengier au lonc cul , " Berengier of the long arse " , where a woman disguised as a knight makes her recreant husband kiss what seems to him to be her exceptionally long arse . |
| 20 | You may find yourself in dispute with management on what seems to you to be a fundamental point of principle . |
| 21 | You will also have made a discovery that what seems to you to be the main features or focus may be seen differently by other people with whom you come in contact . |
| 22 | What seems to you to be a very minor regulation may appear to be a major infringement of liberty to another . |
| 23 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 24 | What appears to me to be essential both for the reader and for the novelist who together constitute a couple — and a couple always comprises two accomplices — is to guide complicity along a most exacting path . |
| 25 | I can now turn to what appears to me to be the crucial question in this case : was the 1s. 6d. an ‘ ordinary retail selling price ’ within the meaning of section 8 ? |
| 26 | It is to this domain that we conventionally ascribe our image of self and of importance , identifying strongly with our controlled ability to articulate what appears to us to be the content of our own will . |
| 27 | As a feminist I wanted these women to stop having what seemed to me to be silly attitudes … |
| 28 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
| 29 | James asked ruefully , already regretting his decision to come to what appeared to him to be a backward , run-down , poverty-stricken island . |
| 30 | Eye witnesses on the ground had seen the aircraft on what appeared to them to be a perfectly normal approach when a large portion of structure separated in flight . |