Example sentences of "what [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 2 | Do you know how much or what income it does provide ? |
| 3 | Exactly what duties they did perform she was uncertain but in matters of law and order it was Christie Goldsborough , and only Christie Goldsborough , who sat in judgement here . |
| 4 | ‘ What nonsense you do talk ! ’ |
| 5 | What fun you do have , Breeze and Gay . |
| 6 | Neither dark nor dumb ceremonies , but … so set forth that every man may understand what they do mean , and to what use they do serve . |
| 7 | Worse still , the bull fiddle possessed no appreciable volume , and what volume it did have was easily submerged by thronging crowds of noisy dance-goers . |
| 8 | " What rubbish you do talk . |
| 9 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
| 10 | It took her an absolute age to get off to sleep that night , and what sleep she did get was only sketchy . |
| 11 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 12 | But what indications we do have as to what is meant by communication are not very reassuring . |
| 13 | What information they do have is often inaccurate and loaded with unreal expectations . |