Example sentences of "[vb infin] what [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm well I do n't really know what to ask you because I was prepared to erm |
| 2 | Children are often snappish and can not be touched ; they want to do as they please yet do not know what pleases them ! |
| 3 | ‘ We did n't know what caused it . |
| 4 | So far as her father was concerned , Molly did n't know what to call him . |
| 5 | and , and say there is again disrespect or whatever for , I do n't know what to call them transracial relationships |
| 6 | You have a first course and a second course and could call it all I do n't know what you call it really , I never do know what to call it all . |
| 7 | I named a duck I had this letter come no no no no , I had this letter come , right , and it said now they 've got this duck and they did n't know what to call it and so Gemma said well I think erm Eileen , Auntie Eileen ought to name it so I , I was asked to name this duck . |
| 8 | Up home they 'd soon know what to call you if you started going on like that . |
| 9 | Do you know what pisses me off ? |
| 10 | ‘ Do you know what made him steal from his employer all those years ago ? ’ |
| 11 | She did n't know what made her say it but she felt proud , a lovely , running excitement went through her , like water . |
| 12 | Oh , I do n't know what made me do that , rotten thing to do , that was . |
| 13 | For several seconds I do n't know what made me wake up . |
| 14 | In fact I do n't know what made me think he was that way in the first place — unless it was you , of course , leading me off the trail ! |
| 15 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 16 | Did n't know what to give you . |
| 17 | How would I know what to mark them ? |
| 18 | Well what do you know what brought her over this way at all ? |
| 19 | I do n't know what brought it up , Norah said something about her , is she allowed on the settee now . |
| 20 | I do n't know what does it take an hour or so ? |
| 21 | so he says but I do n't know what to do he says cos if there 's a job you know , if there 's any overtime , cos there ai n't been none but if there 's any overtime he says I do n't know what to do I said bloody do the overtime , let her hang about . |
| 22 | I I would n't know what to do you know . |
| 23 | I do n't know what to do I 'm in limbo now |
| 24 | so he says but I do n't know what to do he says cos if there 's a job you know , if there 's any overtime , cos there ai n't been none but if there 's any overtime he says I do n't know what to do I said bloody do the overtime , let her hang about . |
| 25 | I I I I I do n't know what to do I have to ask my boss tomorrow again you know ? |
| 26 | Me that did n't know what to do I was n't gon na participate . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The problems is that you do n't know what documents you need for your enquiry . |
| 29 | She did n't know what alerted her ; perhaps a slight tug on the back of the suit , perhaps a sixth sense . |
| 30 | Did n't know what hit him did he ? |