Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] what they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
| 2 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 3 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 4 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 5 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 6 | For for senior citizens do you I mean do you think the the the rent up to what they should be or not ? |
| 7 | Such a system stresses economic self-interest as all-important , rather than community spirit , public duty and so on ; everybody is out for what they can get . |
| 8 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 9 | She attested in September 1939 that ‘ universally , householders have been shocked at the disgraceful and disgusting conditions in which a certain portion of the population lives ’ , and that ‘ the low slum type form the majority of the mothers , some out for what they can get , most of them dirty , many of them idle and unwilling to work or pull their weight ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 11 | What I do n't understand if all they need to do is revert back to what they used to be and come straight through on the on the ordinary route . |