Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [pers pn] [modal v] " 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | We are just as much annoyed as the ordinary racegoer because our entries are well down on what we would normally expect . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ So among what you might call the floating waiting population , there 's really only you . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So erm I 'm hoping to be able to do it , just off what I can do , m my experience as it is like . |
| 24 | He comes over as what he might well be — a paid-up member , if not a capo , in the Mafia . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 27 | Just like what they would do . |
| 28 | Sometimes his Spidergob mates gave him a bit of a skragging on account of it ; not like what you 'd skrag a Mad Dog or a Scarface , if you ever got the chance , ‘ course . |
| 29 | The group of gentlemen who prepared the list and signed the covering letter to Panmure , however , emphasised that unless Panmure wrote the letters in favour of James Milne which they had requested , then their friend would withdraw ‘ & let your declared oposers run away with what they could not , were you either present or your intrest heartily interposed ’ . |
| 30 | But not with what she can not bear , she spawns |