Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] what [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 2 | She was grateful for what she could get . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd be grateful for what you can give me . ’ |
| 4 | They could turn out that for what it 'd cost us to tile them ! |
| 5 | How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ? |
| 6 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 7 | Erm and you know and I the thing that erm used to worry me maybe sometimes , was the acceptance of this as what they should be having . |
| 8 | This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden . |
| 9 | Be quite clear about what you 'll put up with — him being late , missing meals , giving you his laundry . |
| 10 | Memories were fresh of what it may be fair to call ‘ America 's failure in China ’ . |
| 11 | But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have . |
| 12 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
| 13 | His back was already turned , so he did not see Hilary Frome 's gesture , expressive of what he could do with the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 14 | To gain that knowledge means we must not be afraid of what we may uncover within our nature in this process of self-analysis . |
| 15 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |
| 16 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 17 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 18 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |
| 19 | Afraid of the occupant of that room , afraid of what he might find , yet , simultaneously , knowing exactly what he would find . |
| 20 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 21 | Yesterday , when I called at the house before the funeral I was afraid of what I would find . |
| 22 | The real reason was that she was afraid of what I might find out . |
| 23 | I strolled on ( binoculars always at the ready , afraid of what I might miss ) as far as the Wire Dump Heligoland trap . |
| 24 | I told myself it was because you disgusted me , but really I was afraid of what I might do and say . |
| 25 | You are afraid of what I will force you to see . |
| 26 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 27 | ‘ How right I was , ’ she whispered , ‘ to be afraid of what you could do to me . ’ |
| 28 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 29 | The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour . |
| 30 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |