Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was work , and he need no longer allow Dinah to pay for anything , except for what she chose to purchase for herself . |
| 2 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ Except for what you 've told me . ’ |
| 4 | That 's right section three , it should be blank at the moment except for what you 've just been given . |
| 5 | The Good God knows I would dismiss the matter as fanciful and accept that the Scottish King died of an accidental fall from his horse except for what I found , those little shreds clinging to a thorn bush on Kinghorn Ness crying out ‘ Murder ’ to the world . |
| 6 | If we can see this wealth of ideas as stimulations to the imagination rather than as what we have hitherto understood as literal truth we may gain deeper insights into the true nature of our relationship with the living Earth . |
| 7 | They tend to admire people for how they hold themselves and what they say and then blame them more for being found out than for what they do . |
| 8 | May we reserve our admiration for the qualities people have rather than for what they own . |
| 9 | Grades are more to be blamed for what they do not do than for what they do do . |
| 10 | Courts may be important less for what they do than for what they are : their existence makes social workers pause before they apply for an order . |
| 11 | Mr Faulds is better known for the way he says things ( ie very loudly indeed ) than for what he says . |
| 12 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 13 | Thankfully , he has seen this simple act as one of friendship rather than for what it really is — I am afraid of him and I want him on my side . |
| 14 | The houses and cottages are of brick or half-timbered , and it has more of a feel of the Midlands than of what we imagine as Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | And I am more worried about what he thinks of me than of what he might do to Havvie . ’ |
| 16 | It may be argued that this last point has more to do with why the speaker talked about something than with what he talked about . |
| 17 | He had arrived in Europe knowing nothing about the European motor industry or the Continent 's political and economic environment , except from what he had read on the subject at Harvard Business School and in Detroit Central Office reports . |
| 18 | except in what we have said before , said , |
| 19 | ‘ Er — you 've — hm — not told me any more lies , then ? ’ she strove desperately hard to get herself back together , although from what she could see of it Ven was n't objecting that his kisses had the power to scatter all sensible thought . |
| 20 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 21 | ‘ His lamentable reputation in history , ’ it has been said , ‘ derives less from what he did than from what he never tried to do . |
| 22 | I kept hoping the foreman would notice , but he did n't ; there was some meeting going on and he seemed more concerned with the fact that all the bosses were going to that than in what we were doing . ’ |
| 23 | Such disparate allegiances are more likely to agree on what they oppose than in what they support . |
| 24 | Their exaggeration of the small tasks betrayed that they were more involved with Moran than in what they were doing . |
| 25 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 26 | He is important less in himself than in what he says and what he represents . |
| 27 | Frederica tried to talk to M. Grimaud about Racine but , although he could quote several speeches , he was more interested in what Racine was and meant than in what he had written . |
| 28 | She did n't seem interested ; she had been ill while he was away , and spent most of the day in her chair , listening to the radio , more involved with the programmes than in what he was doing . |
| 29 | It sometimes seemed that the Government was less interested in broadcasting from the point of view of fulfilling the three aims mentioned in the plan than in what it could and should do to publicize its own policies and activities . |
| 30 | We could insert ‘ Christian truths ’ ( or doctrines or promises ) for ‘ Christian presuppositions ’ , but I prefer to speak this way to focus attention on what a presupposition does rather than on what it is . |