Example sentences of "[prep] what the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place has a minimum of things , nearly nothing new , but enough of what the 200 women and about 400 children , who pass through the refuge every year , might need . |
| 2 | But for the most part I have become a rather precious wayside nibbler , indulging in what the 1930s writer and fruit gourmet Edward Bunyard christened ‘ ambulant consumption ’ — single wild gooseberries ( squeezed to test for ripeness first ) ; sweet cicely seeds on walks before dinner , a kind of herbal aperitif ; squidgy dewberries eaten on the stalk , like cocktail cherries . |
| 3 | It looks as though John McVeir was a party to Moir McIlchenich 's murder although he was never charged with it , and we can only speculate as to what the three accused said before the Baillie on 16th May which induced the authorities to apprehend John McVeir and bring him before the Baillie on 22nd May 1699 — did they " split " on him ? |
| 4 | Mr Major refused to be drawn on what the two men had agreed but the US is expected to announce soon that a special envoy rather than a ‘ peace ’ envoy will be sent to Ulster . |
| 5 | Well I can tell you , I can tell you th the first part , erm about what the fourteen great achievements are , erm and only then could I , could I sort of try and answer |
| 6 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 7 | They range I mean er the the er the er Prussian Austro-Prussian war of eighteen sixty six is is referred to as what the six weeks war and and erm the five , five weeks of that or or or whatever were were involved in peace negotiations . |
| 8 | Er just to run through what the two what the two schools sort of think it will be fair to say that the traditional school thinks as follows . |
| 9 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 10 | I have considerable sympathy for what the two new clauses seek to do . |
| 11 | We may begin by looking at what the two terms ‘ marked ’ and ‘ unmarked ’ mean . |