Example sentences of "in what [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replacements such as furniture and curtains which I picked up in auction sales we kept in what we called the dry store . |
| 2 | Well there was one Well father was in Cross but er there was one in what we called the South End . |
| 3 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 4 | But his daughters , on whom he is as dependent as a baby , refuse to get up in what they call the middle of the night to enable him to pursue his observations . |
| 5 | The gibbering hippies and spaced-out fatsoes who go there , they come back looking all clean and sane and fine , after a spell in the war , in the Nam , in what they call the shit . |
| 6 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 7 | She lived in a big house in what they called the stockbroker belt , she had healthy and good-looking children , they took two holidays every year . |
| 8 | The best time for this ‘ homework ’ to be done is in what I call the twilight time at night — that period when he is in bed and drowsy but not yet asleep . |
| 9 | This result in what I call the Ami Prosyndrome . |
| 10 | What did Freud think anxiety was in , in what I call the first psychoanalytic revolution , the first period , the eighteen nineties ? |
| 11 | Its sees its involvement with Eo as in keeping with its strategy of strengthening its technological and product base through strategic alliances , and as complementary to its other activities in what it calls the ‘ the new telecom world ’ . |
| 12 | Of their few helpful recommendations , the Committee suggested tapering of HLCAs on larger livestock numbers ( but were not specific ) and paying increased HLCAs in what it called the ‘ disfavoured areas ’ ( Highlands and Islands ) but only there . |
| 13 | The Saturday Review , presumably from the pen of Hope , said that it was in what it called the ‘ modern palatial Gothic ’ style : |
| 14 | ISS sought to add to this by what has become perhaps the most famous aspect of the report , its philosophy of achievement as expressed in what it called the four aspects of achievement , namely |
| 15 | Although Digital has never put a figure on the number involved in what it terms the downsizing of its operations , the company 's president , Robert Palmer , has said that those figures would not be out of line . |
| 16 | Her back was as straight as a ramrod , which made her feel a little more dignified while engaging in what she considered the unladylike art of cycling . |
| 17 | Seleskovitch ( 1978 ) perhaps encompasses both Namy and Pergnier in what she terms the ‘ keyhole ’ principle : the fact that language meaning through translation may not convey message meaning and the corollary that message meaning is expressed through different salient characteristics . |
| 18 | Swisher ( 1976 ) in a thorough review of achievement in what she terms the ‘ oral deaf ’ , found problems in speech ( in word classes , in syntax and in length of utterance ) , in reading ( whether through achievement tests , completion tasks , or direct analysis of morphology , phrases and so on ) , and in writing ( where either limited or stereotyped production occurs ) . |
| 19 | These back regions are formed in what he calls the ‘ interstitial regions ’ abandoned as the city has grown out . |
| 20 | Even many voters who could n't bring themselves to endorse him last November are prepared to believe in what he calls the politics of hope . |
| 21 | They slept it off , not getting up till around eleven next morning , Rufus in the principal guest room , Adam at the other end of the house in what he christened the Pincushion Room because it had a picture on the wall of St Sebastian stuck full of arrows . |
| 22 | Still less was he interested in what he considered the barbarous traditions of the Anglo-Saxon Church which he found on his arrival . |
| 23 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 24 | Whereas most French adventures focus on mechanical sports , such as the Paris-Dakar Rally and the 2000-mile Harricana Snowmobile Race in Canada , Fusil was adamant that any sports in what he called the Raid Gauloises would be human or animal-powered only . |
| 25 | John Hayward was already assiduously collecting Eliot 's letters and drafts for inclusion in what he called the " Archives " and Virginia Woolf noted in her diary that he had acquired a certain kind of writer 's egotism and made remarks like , " Coleridge and I … " |
| 26 | Whereas , in what he called the short Parliament of 1974 , no especially controversial measures could be introduced , the majority in the election later that year emboldened the government to take certain steps of a strongly political character , likely to arouse fierce opposition . |
| 27 | Mr MacKay compared family income in Wales , not counting state benefits , with that in what he called the Inner Region Core South East England , East Anglia , the East Midlands and the South West . |