Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] the [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 | And what I , from what I gather the bigger the household that people were in the more they enjoyed it cos the jobs were shared out more . |
| 3 | of what I heard the previous week . |
| 4 | It 's what I made the other week . |
| 5 | What I asked the right hon. Gentleman — and what he has still not answered — is , would the Government veto a treaty with the word ’ federal ’ in it ? |
| 6 | And I meant what I said the other night . |
| 7 | oh that 's what I meant the Golden Fleece |
| 8 | I could find genuine analogies between the [ Peruvian ] Indian and what I imagined the Russian muzhik to be ’ ( Ravines : 1951 , p. 13 ) . |
| 9 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 10 | As a tutor I teach my students to steer well clear of what I call the 4 oz syndrome , i.e. the system we were all taught years ago . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My next film deals with what I call the private war between Africa-American males and females and it 's a romance . |
| 14 | What did Freud think anxiety was in , in what I call the first psychoanalytic revolution , the first period , the eighteen nineties ? |
| 15 | In addition , men often insisted on the " heavy " side of all these processes : asked to define the finishing processes , one employer 's representative listed " making up into pages and locking it up in the chase , which involves manual heavy labour , lifting and things of that kind — pulling proofs and what I call the heavier labour " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And as I say , you ca n't really beat what I call the basic training apprenticeships which you 're to come through . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | So it 's admirable evidence for what I call the minor claim of the punctuationalist school , of the empirical claim . |
| 22 | Those ghosts are mostly angry ; they are also what I call the show-off ghosts . |
| 23 | cos that , well I tell you what I think the first thing to do is do a system reset if that does n't change the display decoder |
| 24 | We are going to improve and produce what I believe the optimum product eventually . |
| 25 | In this area there is an important connection , which I mentioned before , between what I called the normative and the explanatory interest . |
| 26 | That 's what I found the other day anyway . |
| 27 | That 's what she said the other day . |
| 28 | She has sought to highlight the positive ethical and aesthetic implications of Victorian science as they appear in literature ( rather than looking for further ammunition for what she calls the sterile and artificial battle of literature against science ) . |
| 29 | Dido does n't claim to have got to the bottom of what she calls the Canine Predicament . |
| 30 | President Aquino has urged village leaders to fight what she calls the psychological terror spread by right wing rebels . |