Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] what [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 2 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |
| 3 | However , this body of theory is now being questioned , partly because of growing evidence that people do not behave as the theory predicts , and partly because of the continuing discovery of cases in which the theory 's recommendations as to rational choice conflict with most people 's intuitions about what it would be reasonable to do . |
| 4 | So Taylor took Lineker into the European Championship as his first choice marksman , but with big doubts about what he would contribute . |
| 5 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 6 | IMHO there are only 3 possible contenders from what I would call the ‘ managerial school ’ : |
| 7 | The reasons for this deficit are largely associated with the , the trend of pay and price increases outstripping our income , and outstripping our projections of what we would have to spend . |
| 8 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
| 9 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 10 | For instance , the panel members in the YPLL study were asked to respond to a number of statements about what they would do if they had a problem . |
| 11 | The other major seems to be , to do with ideas about what we would qualify , but could equally well be called ritual purity and impurity . |
| 12 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 13 | That is they would really be the beginnings of what we would now call travelogues . |
| 14 | The sunlight and cloud came and went , rode over and away on , just as possibilities of what he would do next did . |
| 15 | In the event , the deal which has emerged in Taif has justified the general 's fears of what he would regard as a sell-out of the Maronite cause . |
| 16 | I will discount those timeshare marketing there 's four months in that erm with two companies would n't count in terms of what I would call overall experience . |
| 17 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 18 | Erm obviously we can er prepare a note for the committee setting out the main features in what I would call our commercial strategy . |
| 19 | And then he left her alone , climbing the wooden stairs to what she would later learn were his own makeshift quarters on the floor above . |
| 20 | Well each has a particular history erm each has a particular culture and pattern of doing things , structure of government as I 've mentioned but also of course we have common interests so in foreign policy we sometimes draw differences between what we would regard as the direct interests of each state and what we can call common interests of mankind . |
| 21 | ‘ The ramifications of what it would mean has not yet been understood , either by Scotland or elsewhere in the UK . ’ |
| 22 | But the games that matter most obviously nowadays are the league games and we 've lost three badly bad league games to what we would call inferior opposition . |
| 23 | Which one it puts forward can not be decided until Government gives further clues about what it would like : ‘ Once this has happened , the board will move rapidly to implement its preferred option , recognising as we do that the timetable set for us by Government is relatively tight . ’ |
| 24 | In fact , this would pay to rebuild only the most modest house , and the table below gives examples of what it would cost to rebuild different types of houses in different parts of the country . |
| 25 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 26 | It can be used to obtain responses from pupils beyond what they would otherwise achieve . |
| 27 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 28 | Whether that would be in China or another country depended on the unknown factors of what they would actually find overseas and the outcome of developments in China . |
| 29 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 30 | And what , did you have nay thoughts of what you would do when you left school ? |