Example sentences of "of what they [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 2 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 3 | Both speakers will give an account of their work and of what they would like from a supervisor . |
| 4 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 5 | It is not other people or outward events that cause harmful stress , but the way we perceive such external factors and our fears of what they will do to us . |
| 6 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 7 | As we will see , hesitations are an important subject of study because of what they can reveal about the mechanisms being employed when people produce spoken language . |
| 8 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 9 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |