Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 2 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 3 | No progress will be made without agreeing what the fundamental questions and issues really are . ’ |
| 4 | This is best answered by asking what the desired goal is . |
| 5 | ‘ Got ta do what the big man says . ’ |
| 6 | but then er somebody said do n't do that you 've got ta think what the value |
| 7 | So you 've got ta sell benefits you 've got ta know what the product can do for them , right you 've got to find out what they want from it I mean it might be security that 's the big problem |
| 8 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 9 | But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like . |