Example sentences of "with what you [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The corrosion rate is not out of line with what you would expect of a steel hull lying in quiet sea water , ’ claimed John Bernie , head of the National Physical Laboratory 's National Corrosion Service . |
| 2 | Work out what you want to know , write down the approximate question you think will bring out the right answer and then in a third column put a percentage to represent how much the answer equates with what you would like to hear . |
| 3 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 4 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 5 | Yes well you used to scoop your water out with what you used to call a ladle in them days . |
| 6 | So far the general level of intelligence , wit and originality in posting is about on par with what you 'd expect ie. as Roger so wisely put it SHITE . |
| 7 | And nothing you can learn from a book compares with what you can acquire through practical experience . |
| 8 | There is very little incentive at the moment because you are constrained with what you can do with the money . ’ |
| 9 | Until that time be happy with what you can get . ’ |
| 10 | yeah , basically , I mean you could go to poly with what you could get , yeah |