Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunetellers make educated guesses too — mostly about what they think their ‘ subject ’ would like to hear . |
| 2 | Goody , then , sees the activities of Pythagoras and his followers as quite different from the flowering of logic , scientific clarity , lack of ambiguity , scepticism etc. for which he praises classical Greece . |
| 3 | As I was saying to me mam like , all these John Major and that , they 're all going on about what they 're gon na do . |
| 4 | I thought you were supposed to be finding out what he was working on , not going on about what he might or might not have done with Suzanne Regan . ’ |
| 5 | of course goes on about what he always goes on about and er I would remind him that the supplementary estimates which is in the amendment here , is also in the amended motion which is proposed by the Conservatives and had all party support on every committee that it 's come to . |
| 6 | you move on about what you did then as your next |
| 7 | you 're always going on about what you want |
| 8 | I think we need to say , okay , in the future , what are we , the town , gon na do , to make this building right for what we want for the town . |
| 9 | The Cockcroft Committee pointed out that , for pupils with very low scores in GCE and CSE examinations , much could be said about what they do n't know , but little about what they do know . |
| 10 | But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook . |
| 11 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 12 | A bout of feeding early in the morning is followed by a lie down during which they chew the cud . |
| 13 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 14 | ‘ There is no dance house in London which is big enough for what we want to do , ’ she said , looking admiringly at the spacious stage area being laid out to the rear of the former Empire Theatre . |
| 15 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 16 | The first lecture was due to start in half an hour — time enough for what she had to do . |
| 17 | BELVILLE ] The girl 's well enough for what she is . |
| 18 | I ca n't thank him enough for what he is doing , ’ says Kim , of Romford , Essex . |
| 19 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |
| 20 | The judge told Levy no punishment was severe enough for what he did . |
| 21 | I myself put my faith in diazepam I 've got gram diazepam which is very slight , very small dose and is enough just to stop you caring so much about whatever it is that 's really bugging you . |
| 22 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 23 | and we 'll catch it early and so I have n't been , sort of , saying to myself ooh I 've lost some weight , I 'll try to lose more at the moment I 'm not worrying too much about what I eat |
| 24 | I gather she either does n't know very much about Uncle Adam or does n't care very much about what she does know . ’ |
| 25 | The box should give an indication of the number of times you have been in touch personally while nature and content can be filled in through what you enter in the rest of the sections space . |
| 26 | So much for what I saw and thought . |
| 27 | To look only for what we want means that we stay locked within our present knowledge and ideas . |
| 28 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 29 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 30 | Good only for what it can do . |