Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not , after all , ’ she said , looking around her domain with a distinct smile , ‘ running a house of ill repute , which is what I fear the present title of Madame seems to suggest , along with bead curtains , red velvet plush love seats , champagne buckets and other such fittings and accoutrements which are not our style at all these days . |
| 2 | Pakeezah thanked her : ‘ Now that 's what I call a nice cup of tea , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Frithrah , you 're what I call a Chief Rabbit ! " |
| 4 | " I tell you , he 's what I call a Chief Rabbit . |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah it 's got a lot of er it 's a holey , what I call a holey one you know |
| 6 | Yes they can erm , distinguish between what I call a do-it-yourself alarms and th the recognized companies . |
| 7 | Can I just quickly ask whether there 's any cooperation with the youth service in taking these children out on , what I call a challenging activity like rock climbing , like at weekend residential , because you know , it , it seems cooperation there would be very beneficial I 'm sure , in certain types of children who need the physical as well ? |
| 8 | Well we always used to have what I call a traditional Sunday dinner |
| 9 | Losing Betty Boo and getting The Sultans Of Ping FC is not what I call a good deal . |
| 10 | Now that 's what I call a good funeral |
| 11 | And that 's what I call a real bargain : something that 's an improvement and saves you money . |
| 12 | ‘ Now that 's what I call a real bird's-eye view ! ’ she exclaimed as she landed , beaming with delight . |
| 13 | Well fortunately , for me she was n't what I call a big lady |
| 14 | And er , he was a good clean butcher , what I call a clean butcher , you know . |
| 15 | So this is what I call a pessimistic er , view of human nature , this Hobbesian one . |
| 16 | ‘ Black people in America and internationally within the last 500 years have been put under what I call a policed state , ’ comments Singleton . |
| 17 | It is also important to create what I call a maternal genealogy to add to the paternal lineage which the current histories of art canonise — the succession of geniuses passing on the Olympic torch down the ages , man to man . |
| 18 | I also have some other tablets , smaller ones , which I have to take if I get a pain across the chest and it persists … what I call a chuntering thing . |
| 19 | Always joking about rats : that 's what I call a weird sense of humour . |
| 20 | Just two machines , four people and gradually that got up to a reasonable size er i it grew on the back of companies like , , , manufacturing what I call the coordinated look cos knitwear was utilized for bringing other things together . |
| 21 | I said and as I came back up what I call the straight path parallel with the road there were two men loitering in the bushes against the car park . |
| 22 | My next film deals with what I call the private war between Africa-American males and females and it 's a romance . |
| 23 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 24 | I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that . |
| 25 | And as I say , you ca n't really beat what I call the basic training apprenticeships which you 're to come through . |
| 26 | However , there is a danger here of what I call the definitional fallacy , that is a tendency to seek to present the law as if everything was completely cut and dried , whereas such ‘ defences ’ may be better understood as ‘ excuses ’ the primary function of which , from a ( negative ) utilitarian point of view , is simply to minimize the amount of punishment actually imposed without jeopardizing the credibility of the general system of threat through which , arguably , criminal law realizes its prescriptive function . |
| 27 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 28 | So it 's admirable evidence for what I call the minor claim of the punctuationalist school , of the empirical claim . |
| 29 | Those ghosts are mostly angry ; they are also what I call the show-off ghosts . |
| 30 | For this reason , it will be what I call an information-based organization . |