Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb base] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's kind of stupid but it 's kind of funny if you know what I mean cos the baby do n't talk and as soon as the Mum and Dad 's out of the room it 's let's go and find the chocolate . |
| 2 | Let me get the proper sequence of events , then I shall tell you what I know and the problem will be resolved . |
| 3 | What I measure by is what I do and the measurement is by others , not by me . ’ |
| 4 | The list is long and varied and what you choose or the combinations you try will depend on what you want your event to achieve . |
| 5 | Frankly , however minor the item in the programme , you ca n't be too careful what you say or the way you say it . |
| 6 | We bomb what we hate and the pieces of torn flesh become our constant companions . |
| 7 | In short , what we understand as the persistence of poverty may in fact be more complex , a function of new social relations tied to new forms of economic development . |
| 8 | The Arc is what we want and the Fox proved that she 's in top form . ’ |
| 9 | To describe self-governed perceptual sequences , Kant gave the example of scanning the front elevation of a building ; in doing which we determine what we see and the order in which we see it — roof , front-door , top-left-hand window , and so forth . |
| 10 | Other signals may be rooted in our own culture or sub-culture — our clothes and our hair styles , for example , tell other people as much about us as what we say and the way we behave . |
| 11 | being a charity we have to raise money for what we need and the comic will do that as well as teach youngsters about wildlife |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Eastbourne also quoted a Price Waterhouse survey at some length , and referred to shortfall between what we pay and the fees charged . |
| 13 | This is seen to give rise to a culture of teaching as teachers collectively evolve sets of attitudes and responses to their tasks , the content of what they teach and the relationships they have with their colleagues . |
| 14 | We tend to assess people through what they say and the way they say it , to come to conclusions about whether we will like someone from the way they present themselves in words . |
| 15 | Each character still begins a new line , so we know when a new person is speaking , but the ‘ said Puttermessers ’ and ‘ said Xanthippes ’ are pared to the bone : we have to deduce who is speaking from what they say and the way they say it . |
| 16 | Most people will see that what they feel and the reality of what occurs are two totally different things . |
| 17 | ‘ He thinks he 's got it made , but he realises things are n't quite what they seem and the question is , what is he going to do about it ? ’ |
| 18 | Consumers of broadcasting must themselves decide what they want and the price they are willing to pay . |
| 19 | For such macro-systems , the principle that the designer produces what he thinks the users need is being replaced by the principle that the users themselves decide what they want and the professionals assist them in designing as specified by the users . |
| 20 | They can either accept the recommendation , admitting that they are in control of what they do and the situations they create , or more likely they will protest that to take such advice will worsen the situation . |