Example sentences of "[noun pl] what [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In other words what you would have got
2 ‘ Is it so difficult to put into words what I can read on your face ?
3 It does not aim to tell readers what they can do to help the environmental cause , nor is it written in an alarmist way .
4 The People 's Daily tells the Chinese what they are supposed to believe ; Mr Yang tells foreigners what he would like them to believe .
5 Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget .
6 Firelight was conspicuously much less nervous , and when it came to the riding she did for Nails what she would do for none of the others , even Nutty .
7 We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in .
8 Erm the government 's there are telling parents what they ought to do .
9 Physics concerns what we can say about nature .
10 Keen to work proactively , we asked eight local pharmacists what they could provide for our patients .
11 And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do .
12 Any ideas what we should call him ? ’
13 ‘ You can not dictate to families what they can have .
14 The mayor is convinced , and wonders what they should do next .
15 And what 's more , thought Lydia , anyone with half an ounce of sense would , long since now , have told the doctor in no mean terms what he could go and do with himself .
16 WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR RATES What you can do if you think your business rates are too high
17 We can apply the test to the technical and technological subjects , and not only those , but the professional subjects also ; and the boundary line will run now on this side , now on that ; but the things that it divides are different in kind , and only on one side of that line lies what we ought to allow to be education .
18 No official of the Government or Party can go to an ujamaa village and tell the members what they must grow … for if these things happen — that is , if an outsider gives such instructions and enforces them — then it will no longer be an ujamaa village !
19 Do not hesitate to ask your friends what they would do — they see your home much as the prospective purchaser will see it .
20 Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels .
21 Guideline 21 : Tell children what they should do , as well as what they ca n't do .
22 There were only four fights , proper fights , that is , one house burned — and that was an accident that Ewan apologised for most handsomely next day — nobody killed , and just six men what you might call damaged .
23 Although at the moment it is up to you to decide what form of updating you would like to undertake , it would be useful to look at any developments in your area aimed at your special interest , and to find out from employers what they might expect from you in advance of offering you a job .
24 A minimum wage involves the Government dictating to private employers what they should pay their workers .
25 The new clause provides him with an opportunity to ensure that Scottish people are provided with a consultative committee of men and women who will look after the public 's interests and recommend to bus operators what they ought to do to improve services .
26 Try those erm and with the with the coins what I 'd like you to do now is not find out all the things that add up to twelve .
27 For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different .
28 I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it !
29 ‘ Now that it 's illegal , ’ he said , coughing , ‘ it 's worth a thousand times what it used to fetch .
30 This is many times what he would earn as a university graduate in Bangladesh .
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