Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you agree or disagree with what they do , you have to accept that they 've worked out a very complicated system of values . |
| 2 | Too often too many of those responsible for credit control are not trained or organised for what they are doing . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm interested in being part of a subversive band of people who live or die by what they put up in front of an audience . |
| 4 | AS THE FIRST chimes of noon from the bells of Shandon broke over the pavements and washed into the busy shops , the people of Cork halted in their step or turned from what they were doing to cross themselves and murmur the Angelus prayer . |
| 5 | However , earlier exercise is permitted if the participant leaves the employment of the Group through death , redundancy , retirement , injury , disability , or the company or undertaking by which he is employed being transferred outside the Group ; or in the event of a takeover , reconstruction or voluntary winding-up of the Company . |
| 6 | ‘ Most of the time we were so busy rushing the posters out that we did n't have time to read them or think about what they said , ’ said Mr Mark Roblett , 27 , the elder of the two brothers whose south London company came to the aid of both parties . |
| 7 | whether we succeed or fail in what we try to do nearly always depends to some extent on factors beyond our control . |
| 8 | From the distance of a century , some of Van Gogh 's enthusiastic appraisals of the art of his time look curious ; but then , this artist acting as a critic was especially vulnerable to admiring art with a moral purpose , or work from which he was able to draw inspiration . |
| 9 | The counsellor may not be able to find the reason readily , or we may not like or agree with what we find , but nevertheless the reason will exist . |
| 10 | They can not use a vocabulary which they do not know , nor relate to what they are in deepest ignorance of ; 5. promote pupils ' own search for a commitment by which to live and find meaning and fulfilment in wrestling with ultimate questions ; |
| 11 | On one occasion , as the wedding day drew near , Charles put his arm around her waist and commented on what he considered to be her chubby figure . |
| 12 | The caretaker , an old man and frightened by what he saw , went to his wife who then called the police . |
| 13 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 14 | Along with other information of a similar nature , it forms a model in my head that I can apply and compare with what I see each time I work there . |
| 15 | If they were assertive and asked for what they wanted rather than ‘ manipulated ’ , they would in many cases be more successful . |
| 16 | One kicker-out-of-loads , Iain Crawford , enlisted for the effort by his mother-in-law and obediently incurious about the cargo he was handling , remembered how the crew camped one night at Ilopango , cooking a barbecue beside the crates of plastic explosives ; and a group of men approached them , led by ‘ Ambassador Duemling of the State Department ’ , and winked at what they were doing . |
| 17 | He says that the children are responding to a need in themselves , and believes that many adults do n't make the time to slow down and think about what they really need . |
| 18 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
| 19 | But what it tells us is that in these twenty areas , management should try and think about what it is they can do to prevent problems . |
| 20 | They were in the audience shouting and cheering from what I saw . |
| 21 | For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why . |
| 22 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 23 | We all read books and passed on what we learnt to the others . |
| 24 | Give others your attention and concentrate on what they 're saying . |
| 25 | I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring . |
| 26 | I thought that Carl could be right about this — better to get out , relax and concentrate on what I was doing and not on anybody else . |
| 27 | When I get on that plane , I 'll just sit myself in a corner and concentrate on what I have to do . |
| 28 | She really must put Maria Luisa and Steve and Fernando out of her mind and concentrate on what she was here on the island of Majorca for — to work . |
| 29 | I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality . |
| 30 | But it is hard to re-create the atmosphere of fanaticism and fear in which it seemed unsurprising that the gramophone records of Paul Robeson were expunged from the catalogues and the novels of Theodore Dreiser and the detective stories of Dashiell Hammett were purged from public libraries . |