Example sentences of "[prep] what i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | of what I heard the previous week . |
| 2 | I shall attempt to establish the general outlines of what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy by examining in detail the work of some writers who have explicitly addressed themselves to questions of literacy and its cognitive consequences . |
| 3 | The various versions of Goody 's case comprise major characteristics of what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 4 | However , there is a danger here of what I call the definitional fallacy , that is a tendency to seek to present the law as if everything was completely cut and dried , whereas such ‘ defences ’ may be better understood as ‘ excuses ’ the primary function of which , from a ( negative ) utilitarian point of view , is simply to minimize the amount of punishment actually imposed without jeopardizing the credibility of the general system of threat through which , arguably , criminal law realizes its prescriptive function . |
| 5 | I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that . |
| 6 | As a tutor I teach my students to steer well clear of what I call the 4 oz syndrome , i.e. the system we were all taught years ago . |
| 7 | You know , you should stay at home and have at least eight babies — it 's incredibly difficult , I mean a lot of parents would disagree whole heartedly with what I tell the girls . |
| 8 | My next film deals with what I call the private war between Africa-American males and females and it 's a romance . |
| 9 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 10 | The best time for this ‘ homework ’ to be done is in what I call the twilight time at night — that period when he is in bed and drowsy but not yet asleep . |
| 11 | This result in what I call the Ami Prosyndrome . |
| 12 | What did Freud think anxiety was in , in what I call the first psychoanalytic revolution , the first period , the eighteen nineties ? |
| 13 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing much else , really , as you can see from what I told the Brigadier — except that , whatever 's happened , I 've got nothing to do with it — I expect she was attracted by the light in my window if she was lost . ’ |
| 15 | And what I , from what I gather the bigger the household that people were in the more they enjoyed it cos the jobs were shared out more . |
| 16 | You can instead tell your tale from what I call the " angel over the shoulder " point of view . |
| 17 | This argument appealed to what I called the ideal of protected expectation , that collective force should be used only in accordance with standards chosen and read through procedures the community as a whole knows will be used for that purpose , procedures so widely acknowledged that they are matters of general social or professional convention . |
| 18 | The issues we are facing in the present crisis of faith touch on what I call the Square One Principle . |
| 19 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 20 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 21 | I had to pay off what I owed the bank . |
| 22 | During what I call the period of uneasy peace , 1983–84 , Mr Heinz expected all options to be examined and costed in detail . |
| 23 | So it 's admirable evidence for what I call the minor claim of the punctuationalist school , of the empirical claim . |
| 24 | In this area there is an important connection , which I mentioned before , between what I called the normative and the explanatory interest . |
| 25 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |