Example sentences of "[prep] what [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was angled so that only the captain could see it and Jezrael had no knowledge of what it showed , only her own innate fear of what damage it might cause . |
| 2 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 3 | An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him . |
| 4 | I mean it 's a case of of what time we 'd make the journey is n't it ? |
| 5 | Think back to Jem Higgins and ask yourself of what use it would be for me to preach your message to him . ’ |
| 6 | But to show such contempt , such disregard of what talent she might possess — that was what she found unforgivable . |
| 7 | Much talk with friends of what result we would ‘ settle for ’ — as if we have any choice . |
| 8 | But since no one had told me about what had taken place the night before , I had no idea of what advice they would give . |
| 9 | Assuming sex education is given to the child by a school , the question of what form it should take must be considered . |
| 10 | We sha n't be able to do a thorough coverage , I know , but it 's a relatively small area , and we may as well keep it under what control we can manage between us . |
| 11 | To arrive at the answer that makes best financial sense , present commitments have to be weighed against likely future expenditure ( together with what money you will have available ) . |
| 12 | We know with what confidence it must have been made . |
| 13 | McLeish , sitting on the other side of her , huddled on the uncomfortable bench-seating , could smell the faint perfume she wore and thought , with what detachment he could bring to bear , that one of the minor complications of this case was going to be the reactions of every man involved as suspect , colleague or witness , to this beauty he had managed to import on to his staff . |
| 14 | Disappointingly , the policemen took no notice of the blood , but drove off in the direction the robbers had taken , with what result I can not say . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose this means you want me to leave , ’ he said with what dignity he could , half-sprawled across the desk with his chin six inches above the remains of a take-away pizza and a cardboard cup of coffee dregs . |
| 16 | Mr Maxmilian Frizzell had never read a book since leaving school and did not know who Lawrence was , so he put down the newspaper and took up the Car Dealer and Garageman with what dignity he could muster . |
| 17 | Each case is different , and it will be for you to decide upon what action you should take to try to improve your parent 's situation in the light of your knowledge of her circumstances . |
| 18 | But in what mood she would be listening was not so certain , considering everything that had happened . |
| 19 | Dear Gordon , Q. I would like to ask your advice on which are the best concentrates for my horse and in what quantity they should be given . |
| 20 | She watched , not pursuing in what event he might not be there to make it himself . |
| 21 | It is , rather , that the errors that they make permeate their philosophy of mathematics , their account of its foundations , of what their subject is about , and in what direction it should develop . |
| 22 | These five possible areas of leisure activities are only illustrative for the particular methodological problem here being discussed ; they are not in fact derived from any research , but they will suffice to show that the researcher should now be thinking in what order they might be placed so as to g*e a sensible progression in an interview . |
| 23 | So how does the Creation 6 program decide which colour is which and in what order they will be placed ? |
| 24 | You need to establish a list of goals and decide when and in what order you will introduce change to your eating habits . |
| 25 | The second one is erm a bottom up study which is based on today 's commitments but projecting them forward into the timescale in which we will have the aircraft and looking in that way to see how many and and in what way we would need them . |
| 26 | So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today . |
| 27 | From our union we gave of ourselves in what way we could to those who sought or needed our support . |
| 28 | But like the proverbial elephant , amenity is easier to recognise than to define , with the important difference that , though all would be agreed that an elephant is such , there is considerable scope for disagreement on the degree and importance of amenities : which amenities should be preserved , in what way they should be preserved and how much expense ( public or private ) is justified . |
| 29 | Even before disaffiliation the Communists had urged all ILP " militants " to " take the lead in calling upon all revolutionary elements to come out of the ILP in a body , hold a separate conference and decide whether and in what way they can link themselves up with the only revolutionary party in Britain today — the Communist Party " . |
| 30 | It 's difficult to know in what way you would actually set about doing this . |