Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 6 | 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 — " |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The first lecture was due to start in half an hour — time enough for what she had to do . |
| 10 | BELVILLE ] The girl 's well enough for what she is . |
| 11 | I ca n't thank him enough for what he is doing , ’ says Kim , of Romford , Essex . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The judge told Levy no punishment was severe enough for what he did . |
| 14 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | So much for what I saw and thought . |
| 18 | To look only for what we want means that we stay locked within our present knowledge and ideas . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Good only for what it can do . |
| 22 | Unlike travellers ' cheques , you pay only for what you change . |
| 23 | PAY ONLY FOR WHAT YOU USE |
| 24 | Only for what I deserve . ’ |
| 25 | You will think I want to marry you only for what I have done , and you will refuse me on that score . ’ |
| 26 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 27 | He had asked her only for what he needed , though there must be many blunter questions he could have put to her had he been so minded . |
| 28 | People never bragged about their beginnings , only about what they had achieved , and never admitted it was through someone else 's sweat . |
| 29 | There is nothing manufactured by man that has not been designed , because whether it 's a Rolls-Royce engine or a piece of printed paper , there 's always a decision to be made not only about what it 's going to look like but about how it is going to be made and how it is going to operate . |
| 30 | She also felt confused — and not only about what he was doing here . |