Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In which case , ’ Cranston began , ‘ let us make a brief summary of what we do know . |
| 2 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 3 | You can get plenty of what you do n't want and a little of what you do want . |
| 4 | Such titles and ornamentation can create the effect of bathos , or comic undermining of what you do achieve . |
| 5 | Erm well in in the context of what I did say yesterday it 'll come as no great surprise to anyone that like Ryedale we also accept the North Yorkshire County County figures , erm which in short we we find are based on reasonable assumptions and and and an appropriate methodology , compared to some of the more extreme interpretations and projections that have that have been put forward , if I can illustrate that point by reference to er potential building rates , that the highest figure that 's been suggested is the one put forward by Mr Grigson , of Barton Willmore , I 'm talking for the moment about Greater York generally , and I 'll come onto the Selby aspect in a minute . |
| 6 | Though in some ways Colin was quite close to his drivers — closer to some than to others — he was , in financial matters , something of a cheese-parer and though his sponsors were generally reasonably generous , even at the height of Lotus 's reputation he neither enjoyed the kind of largesse available to some teams nor , with his many other commitments and his fairly flamboyant life style , could devote all of what he did receive to his team . |
| 7 | The choice of literature , as you realize was meant to be contrasting , and I put book down as an example of what I thought was the worst possible , er , use of use of psychoanalysis , kind of gutter journalism , erm and which you did n't look at , and it 's , it 's no criticism of you erm , because er , you had your work cut out with what you did do , but the reason I put down Gandhi 's Truth , if anybody 's ever read that , have they ? |
| 8 | Start with what you DO know — nobody understands everything ! |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , child , ’ Jake whispered , ‘ there 's so much to regret in what I let happen to him . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , from what we do know , there can be no doubt that the children 's world of the eighteenth century — at least for those born higher up the social scale than the labouring poor — changed dramatically . |
| 11 | From what he let drop I 'd say she was on at him morning , noon and night . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know anything except what I read in the papers but from what I do read your government ca n't see this pattern . ’ |
| 13 | A dispute over what they do mean is , in principle , like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute . |
| 14 | However this convenient explanation of his style bore no relation to what we did know about O's past life with other men . |
| 15 | The Cockcroft Committee pointed out that , for pupils with very low scores in GCE and CSE examinations , much could be said about what they do n't know , but little about what they do know . |
| 16 | It is concerned with telling you as much about what we do n't yet know as about what we do know . |
| 17 | ‘ And you are blind , Fernando Serra , not totally but enough to be choosy about what you do see . |
| 18 | I gather she either does n't know very much about Uncle Adam or does n't care very much about what she does know . ’ |
| 19 | Yes , Mr Chairman , I , erm , I , I , I do appreciate that erm , I 've been invited through Committee er , to go through what I do represent er , the building project erm , on behalf of the economic development , because as you all know , I 'm of course on the economic development before , but er , in the past I 've found that that I have er been , shall we say , relieved of my positions on other er , position , erm , unknownst to myself , and of course I have er , actually turned up on these planning functions and been there , and to me in the past , I have always found that if one is going to be missed one must then , one 's either asked if he wishes to continue , if he 's been doing his job properly , if he does n't do his job properly then it 's only right to replace him . |
| 20 | Grades are more to be blamed for what they do not do than for what they do do . |
| 21 | ‘ Apparently it 's coming to an end , ’ said Julia , ‘ and the commissioners have found that a great many of the Italians they tried to reward for what they did have refused to take any money at all . |
| 22 | He judged her worthy of finer clothes , for what she did have on she wore with an air . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 24 | It remains significant — perhaps all the more significant — for what it does say . |
| 25 | In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’ |
| 26 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |