Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | I thought you were supposed to be finding out what he was working on , not going on about what he might or might not have done with Suzanne Regan . ’ |
2 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
3 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
4 | Good only for what it can do . |
5 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
6 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
7 | Dr Neil turned away from inspecting his own bookshelves , said , apropos of what she could not imagine , ‘ You are not English , I perceive , Miss McAllister . ’ |
8 | But because of natural bodies we know not the construction , but seek it from the effects , there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for , but only of what they may be . |
9 | It is a common problem for a woman to undervalue herself , being aware only of what she can not , rather than what she can , do . |
10 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
11 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
12 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
13 | A realistic budget will do three things for you : it will sort out the urgent essentials from the details which can wait ; make you feel good if you manage any or all of it at a lower price than your original estimate ; and inspire you to improvise , to consider if you could achieve an equally good effect and still fit in with what you can comfortably afford . |
14 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
15 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
16 | They cobble workings together from whatever they can scrape up . |
17 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
18 | If some studies of style are of doubtful value because of their emphasis on quantitative methods , the opposite tendency to rely entirely on what we may call stylistic intuition has , if anything , been even more prevalent . |
19 | We are just as much annoyed as the ordinary racegoer because our entries are well down on what we would normally expect . ’ |
20 | For , oh , how awful is the seizure of the invisible , last enemy , sitting in triumph over the body , which is all over which he can have power . ’ |
21 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
22 | ‘ So among what you might call the floating waiting population , there 's really only you . ’ |
23 | The educated person is characterised less by what she can do , and more by what the process of learning and knowing has done to her . |
24 | It was also essential that he believed he was being cured , because of the need he would face soon for what I can only call ‘ self-help ’ . |
25 | I can not keep her any longer for what she can afford to pay , and she would like you to find her accommodation near where you live . |
26 | So erm I 'm hoping to be able to do it , just off what I can do , m my experience as it is like . |
27 | He comes over as what he might well be — a paid-up member , if not a capo , in the Mafia . |
28 | It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen . |
29 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
30 | Just like what they would do . |