Example sentences of "what you [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 2 | It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience . |
| 3 | ‘ What you might call our border . |
| 4 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 5 | So think of a question for each of them then and write then down what you might ask them . |
| 6 | A bush tree is exactly what you would expect it to be ( bushy ) , but at the right height for picking and pruning comfortably . |
| 7 | I knew that was what you would want me to do , sir . |
| 8 | What you need now , not what you would want you want , |
| 9 | I only know what you would have me be . ’ |
| 10 | Into sales from being what I would call an artisan and er I do n't know what you would call yourself , but somebody who does things erm er on a er manual stroke artisan type work , over to sales . |
| 11 | Now , that 's and example of functional group isomerism what I 'd like you to do now is to try and decide what these two things are called I 'm gon na put on the board and try and decide what you would call them in terms these general labels under structural isomerism . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 13 | People are very seldom exactly what you would like them to be . ’ |
| 14 | Include the following information : your name and address the name and address of the shop the date and time of the opening what you would like your guest to do ( eg cut a ribbon , give a speech etc ) what fee ( if any ) you will pay and details of travel arrangements and expenses . |
| 15 | It is equally important to stress also that law is not whatever you please , nor what you would like it to be . |
| 16 | Decide what you 'll give them . ’ |
| 17 | I tell you what you 'll give 'em till next Tuesday and if it do n't come by then you still , you can just cancel it save up |
| 18 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 19 | So if you really want to be kind , that 's what you 'll let me do . ’ |
| 20 | WHAT YOU MAY HAVE I DO NEED |
| 21 | have a chat to him about what you could do I said do n't worry I said . |
| 22 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 23 | So capitalism has to export it over its boundary and that 's one of the company , what you could call it period , for example , erm |
| 24 | What you could afford you had . |
| 25 | Now in a way what you could say what we have here is a trunk of a tree and the branches and then the leaves and the fruit at different levels on this . |
| 26 | If I told you what you can lay your hands on , if you 're prepared to pay the price , you 'd be astonished . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can . |
| 28 | Erm the cluster makes you realise how you presented things to people what you can improve them having things in your hand that it it just makes you erm more nervous because you 're fumbling about what makes me more nervous you 're fumbling about with something trying to do something that you do n't really need to do . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd be grateful for what you can give me . ’ |
| 30 | The only thing what you can get them |