Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb base] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 2 | One explained : ‘ I have to be careful about what I say publicly because it is just not acceptable to be seen adding to the depression . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd never do what I do now if it was n't for Summerhill 's free-wheeling , timeless , non-routine approach to getting through when life 's off the rails . |
| 4 | Now as long as this is council budget if this is what you prefer rather than Dovelands school that 's alright , this is the problem that the financial committee will be faced with this year . |
| 5 | that 's what you think So if it was lower than that , would you buy one ? |
| 6 | Many people believe that the condition of a horse 's coat depends on what you feed rather than how you groom , but whatever your views there is no doubt that as long as his feet are picked out and the parts where the tack touches are clean he will come to no harm . |
| 7 | I would suggest that the consonants and the context are what you need rather than worrying about small differences that are flexible , depending on the speaker . |
| 8 | That depends entirely on what you do together after you meet her or him . |
| 9 | For best results it is advisable to find a specialist in what you want rather than one whose main business is divorces , conveyancing or racehorses . |
| 10 | People will go along with what you want rather than actively supporting you . |
| 11 | Three , four years ago the seeds of what we know today as desktop publishing were being sown by companies like Xerox , Interleaf , Sun and Apollo . |
| 12 | Best stay with what we have rather than try to change for something else . |
| 13 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 14 | Do they draw what they know rather than what they see ? |
| 15 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 16 | After all , if its purpose is professional development and curriculum improvement , there is no reason why schools and teachers should disseminate what they do farther than the bounds of their own school community . |
| 17 | yeah what they do now if its , if its not within sight they say we have n't got any thing |
| 18 | And these are your function keys and what they do so if you ever need to know what to do , F one F one , and it tells all you need to know . |