Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erlich said , ‘ I 'd rather know what you 've got for me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Edward of England will only eat what he can digest ! ’ |
| 3 | You can only experience what he did by living as people do . |
| 4 | If Wullie Robertson was not to her liking he would soon enough know what he could do with his bloody trumpet . |
| 5 | Words like " explain " , " justify " and " assess " are used to focus your attention on causation and evidence ; you should not only describe what you have read but also offer an analysis of why you take the view of it you do . |
| 6 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 7 | It 's like if you had a doctor testing some aboriginal tribe for blood types — they would n't necessarily know what he was doing . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It will greatly assist what we are trying to aim for in the development of the game in all quarters of the county . ’ |
| 9 | This particular section 's taken some slices already , so we 'd better watch what we say to them . |
| 10 | Well it does n't much matter whatever it is . |
| 11 | It does n't much matter what you wear during the day , but we 'll find you something for the evenings . ’ |
| 12 | It did n't much matter what I came out with . |
| 13 | I 'd only do something I enjoyed . |
| 14 | We can only do what we do and if it rubs off , then fine . |
| 15 | If they 're not properly trained it 's not their fault , people can only do what they can do ca n't they ? |
| 16 | It need only do what it does now when it examines doctors ' behaviour by asking them to justify that behaviour before a panel of their professional peers . |
| 17 | All , though much preoccupied with perception , are silent on the paradox in perceiving which results from a chicken-egg situation , namely , that we can only perceive what we attend to , and we can only attend to what we perceive . |
| 18 | A human can tell you of this experience verbally ; with animals you can only study what they do . |
| 19 | And if you want our partnership to last though this flight to Fraxilly , you 'd better do what you said and put the whole Gharr episode out of your mind . ’ |
| 20 | He raised his black eyebrows in a look so disbelieving that she could only repeat what she 'd said . |
| 21 | ‘ I can only repeat what I have already said to other journalists , ’ he said and began to read . |
| 22 | As for the remainder , I can only repeat what I have already said : the schemes will be on broadly the same terms as are currently enjoyed . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll obviously do what I can to help , ’ she began , sipping her drink . |
| 24 | It was too late for an abortion , and as for Marc , she hardly knew him , and did n't much like what she knew . |
| 25 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 26 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 27 | ‘ John Smith was right to tell the country that a Labour government will only spend what it can afford . |
| 28 | And as an experienced tellee himself , he knows that Pooh will only believe what he says if Pooh believes that he believes it too . |
| 29 | ‘ I told you , I did n't much mind what I did . |
| 30 | Lorne does n't much mind what he looks like . |