Example sentences of "[adv] what you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not perhaps what you want to hear , particularly when you know that so many obstacles could be removed if loved ones or colleagues would be more honest and alter their stand just a fraction . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was important erm because as as as erm , as I 'm I 'm fond of saying that in history perhaps what you believe is more important than what actually happened . |
| 3 | You 'd probably be the first person to respond if someone wrote in and said ‘ everybody with short hair and who conforms should be banned from gigs ’ which is basically what you wrote , only vice versa . |
| 4 | You 'd probably be the first person to respond if someone wrote in and said ‘ everybody with short hair and who conforms should be banned from gigs ’ which is basically what you wrote , only vice versa . |
| 5 | I mean having found you know this sine is the opposite over the hypotenuse tan is basically what you 've got to find I suppose is which two sides of the triangle you 're using . |
| 6 | You see , basically what you do , you just take them out and we put salad bar , all we do , we have one of those and one of those . |
| 7 | basically what you want to talk about is it . |
| 8 | But if a passage you have written seems confused , yet you think it says basically what you want it to say , it can be worth moving elements by changing around active and passive constructions ( or experimenting with cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions , which are described above , Chapter 3 , p. 64 ) . |
| 9 | Then it does n't matter so much what you say that stops it walking in front of the bus , it 's actually how you say it . |
| 10 | Of course in rural situations this can be overcome by merely peeing outside , a course of action not open to you in the city , unless of course you live in London where it does n't matter much what you do in the street . |
| 11 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 12 | It was not so much What you know' as ‘ who you know ’ and this heightened their already serious sense of unfairness . |
| 13 | I do n't think it matters much what you study , but I think to do so is very important in terms of promoting the power to think about issues . |
| 14 | it 's entirely up to you , but apparently what you want to do , make it an evening then ? |
| 15 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
| 17 | Erm , and obviously what you use these things for is to schedule your activities . |
| 18 | Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response . |
| 19 | Thinking of his earlier remark , Cassie said bluntly : ‘ Well , I 've only just about got one foot in the middle class bracket , myself , so perhaps you 'd be slumming if you made love to me , which is so obviously what you have in mind . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , it 's clear enough what you want , ’ he responded angrily . |
| 21 | Especially what you saw . |
| 22 | What you 've done for six long years , and more especially what you 've been doing to me ever since we met again ? ’ |
| 23 | I mean I 've got my own thoughts , I have to be careful here that you know I 've got to try and pull together what you think because at the end of the day it 's it 's very important that it reflects the way we work in school , not the way I perceive I we work in in school because you 're the people at the chalk first . |
| 24 | This form is actually quite good for analysing how you pay for things , not necessarily what you pay , paid for , erm , I , again , er , almost certainly useless to you . |
| 25 | and how you feel yourself , that 's how you present yourself to other people , I think if you present yourself in a confident manner , I think people pick up on that and I do , I do n't think beauty is necessarily what you see , I think its how you feel within yourself and how you present yourself to people . |
| 26 | It 's not necessarily what you see , but what you experience . |
| 27 | On , on the point of representation , in fact , er , I think there have been representations made already be those authorities who felt they were disadvantaged in the first case , and so what you 've seen with , using this method of distribution , is a switch actually , of expenditure to London boroughs , London boroughs felt that they had lost , er , in the first round of S T G , but now if you look at the overall spread they and the er , Mets have gained . |
| 28 | Alright , so what you 've learnt from the experience in North China is that you are actually better off to go in fairly gently |
| 29 | So what you 've got there is a mass of you 've got six twelve words on the first circle and then you 've got twenty four words on the outer circle are you gon na dump all that information on to the audience to try and persuade them of your objective ? |
| 30 | What you also get is the storks have got nest sites in chimneys so you get the storks , so what you 've got is nest sites for people and storks increase together , so there 's an intervening variable . |