Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say I suddenly got pretty apprehensive about what my aunt and uncle would say as they listened to my stammering explanation . |
| 2 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 3 | And Lot fifty is a suitcase Standard , there it is now , Lot fifty for which I have a hundred and fifty offered , sixty , one seventy , one eighty one ninety two hundred , two twenty two forty , two sixty two eighty , three hundred and twenty , three twenty seated , any more ? |
| 4 | If you feel especially anxious or upset about what you are faced with doing to/with a client have you been able to use this as a guide to how fearful or angry the client may also be feeling ? |
| 5 | That 's why she 's so upset about what she did . ’ |
| 6 | But as the owner of one of the sites you 've been turning over , could you be more specific about what they 're looking for ? |
| 7 | When you want something , be specific about what you actually want and precise in laying down the details . |
| 8 | But if I 'm right about what it takes to tell the truth , Pooh ca n't tell anyone that there 's honey there without first becoming aware of having that belief . |
| 9 | Unfortunately both Marx and Engels , in their enthusiasm for this confirmation of their theory , also took over from Morgan 's work on the gens several totally unsupportable assumptions which are in fact quite unnecessary for what they were trying to argue . |
| 10 | Oh yes , the , the service that the retain people give is unbelievable for what they get paid for , it 's , it 's pennies really for that service . |
| 11 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 12 | They know little about what they are being asked to invest in , but they do believe that the Government 's determination to make the privatisation succeed will ensure that the water authorities are presented as a steal . |
| 13 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 14 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 15 | Can I ask you Professor Lock to say a little about what you consider the housing implications of such a policy might be ? |
| 16 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 17 | However , in his central theology and sense of the nature of religion in general and Catholicism in particular , he remained extraordinarily faithful to the papacy of Pius XII during which he had been trained and ordained . |
| 18 | ‘ No , Melody , I 'm not sorry for what we did . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ said Mrs Darrell violently to McAllister , who was dipping a curtsy , and beginning a stammering apology , but only because Dr Neil had asked her , not because she was sorry for what she had done . |
| 20 | Always before , after similar wickednesses , she had felt almost gleeful triumph , but this time , although she was not truly sorry for what she had done to Mrs Darrell , she felt something like remorse . |
| 21 | Still , her children are quite young and erm and I , I think she 's sorry for what she 's done . |
| 22 | ‘ The poor man , ’ a contemporary recorded , ‘ had little to say but that he was sorry for what he had done , and wept like a child . ’ |
| 23 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 24 | Oliver felt so small in his hands that he was suddenly sorry for what he had said . |
| 25 | She believed he was ’ sorry for what he had done . |
| 26 | Lee Don Lau called his parents in Singapore to say he was sorry for what he had done . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 28 | I 'm so sorry for what I said . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 30 | He told Newcastle magistrates : ‘ I 'm sorry for what I did . |