Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [Wh det] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 2 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 3 | I mean this is I er er there , there is a , a fundamental problem here I think th that i if you do the calculations in terms of how many calories per amount of grain it does seem that , that for what we regard as being an adequate diet and then again it 's a diet which is not being supplemented by meat okay there will be some vegetables but basically it 's grain , you , you do need somewhere between six and seven hundred . |
| 4 | We have n't used or worn half of what we have brought . |
| 5 | She does n't understand half of what we say but she listens all the time . |
| 6 | Well that is n't bloody half of what we paid . |
| 7 | He believes it important to be seen to be a good community person and to put back in some of what we take out . |
| 8 | ( Pollock , 1976 , p. 157 ) Also , at least some of what we call causes may seem to be ordinary things or indeed stuff , such as the snow . |
| 9 | ‘ I paid some of what we owe the milkman and I bought some sausages and some bacon from Woolworth 's because we owe Whiting 's and I did n't want to go in there . ’ |
| 10 | As each person dies , he does so in a little skirmish of the platoon that is parallel to , and reflects , one of the four major disastrous battles of the war — Dunkirk , Dieppe , Alamein and Arnhem — which is shown in tinted black-and-white footage , some of which we shot and some of it archive material . |
| 11 | Some of which we voted against |
| 12 | It is also that the perspectives necessarily adopted by very different interest groups , some of which we have tried to reproduce here , will contain a degree of indeterminacy of translation between themselves . |
| 13 | Some of which we have n't done yet , some of which we have , so it 's up to you . |
| 14 | Some of which we have n't done yet , some of which we have , so it 's up to you . |
| 15 | And it soon became apparent that very little of what we did in the department would pass any objective assessment of a clearly understood and resourced process to satisfy agreed customer requirements . |
| 16 | While I am all for buying British , very little of what we buy here today is entirely British . |
| 17 | I have to assume therefore that the rest is equally bad and that little of what we read in guidebooks as climbing history should be taken seriously . |
| 18 | Now imagine the same boundary maintained under the same forces and displacements not by the real continuum but by an arbitrary network of " finite elements ' in each of which we consider only the forces and displacements at their junctions , or " nodes ' . |
| 19 | For that of which we relate is our interpretation , our presentational continuum coloured not so much by the world as by our own senses . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think we think too much about what we eat ? ’ asked Scarlet , who was beginning to get tired of reading all the labels in the supermarket before buying even a packet of dried beans . |
| 21 | It is concerned with telling you as much about what we do n't yet know as about what we do know . |
| 22 | It 's a business that is increasingly professional in its approach , because we are also in a business where we have to convince our clients that we know as much about what we do in our companies as they know about theirs . |
| 23 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 24 | But much of what we throw away can be recycled and used again . |
| 25 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |
| 26 | The objection is that much of what we know could not have been learnt on the basis of experience . |
| 27 | And yet much of what we know of him today comes from Ireland . |
| 28 | Radar studies of Venus began in 1961 and have revealed much of what we know about the Cytherean surface . |
| 29 | Much of what we saw related discouragingly to familiar bad habits , a thought that occurred , not for the first time , to George Cohen , who for the benefit of younger readers made a notable contribution to the history of English football when turning out in the 1966 World Cup final . |
| 30 | In this little original work there is much of what we need to know about Galileo 's methods . |