Example sentences of "[vb infin] what [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children are often snappish and can not be touched ; they want to do as they please yet do not know what pleases them ! |
| 2 | Do you know what pleases your partner most ? |
| 3 | Do you know what pisses me off ? |
| 4 | He ended with one of his most beautiful and profound utterances : ‘ Do you know what frees one from this captivity ? |
| 5 | I do n't know what does it take an hour or so ? |
| 6 | If you do not know what documents you have and how they relate to one another , your priority should be to put them in order rather than to transfer them to an electronic system . |
| 7 | The problems is that you do n't know what documents you need for your enquiry . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know what makes you think she 's unfaithful , ’ Nigel said weakly . |
| 9 | ( 158 ) I do n't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business … |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know what makes you so certain I 'm the woman who — ’ |
| 11 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 12 | You do n't know what awaits you , ’ he said in a placatory tone , striding towards her . |
| 13 | Continuing our policy of letting you know what services you will find in the Scottish Science Library ( SSL ) this issue highlights our collection of company annual reports , our CD-ROM collection and the foreign periodicals collection , which formerly belonged to the Royal Society of Edinburgh . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know what brings you , ducks , but it 's good to see yer . ’ |
| 15 | He also talks to him about the possible relationship between stress , smoking , poor dietary habits , alcohol and the incidence of peptic ulcers so that Peter understands what is happening and can consider what changes he might make in his lifestyle . |
| 16 | I mean th a great variety of things are depressing but can you identify what makes you depressed ? |
| 17 | Indeed , indeed so that 's what you might use , yep What 's the value , I mean what does it do what does it do for the company first of all ? |
| 18 | To try and do what makes me happy , dress in a way that makes me happy . |
| 19 | ‘ It was the first time I did n't have to worry what the other girls were gon na think , what anyone was gon na think and if I do n't like what happens I can cut it out … |
| 20 | ‘ I just do n't see what upsets them . ’ |
| 21 | When were here , so , yeah , oh I shall go and see what bargains I can get here , eh . |
| 22 | I 'd rather see what makes me different as something almost congenital . |
| 23 | I could see what stops them falling in on top of each other . ’ |
| 24 | Oh I 'm not just a pretty face I do n't remember what dates it has , make up three appropriate dates So they 're both coming at half past twelve , yeah ? |
| 25 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |
| 26 | First of all , local authorities possess only a very limited economic power and can only exercise what powers they have in very small geographical areas . |
| 27 | If you ended up with several lists of different sounds you would also try and decide what sounds they are phonetically and what symbols to use . |
| 28 | Treaty relationships are consensual , and third parties must decide what claims they wish to make with respect to the relationship from which they are excluded . |
| 29 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |
| 30 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |