Example sentences of "what [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 2 | If that 's what turns you on that 's fine by me , but please leave me out of them . |
| 3 | Clearly that 's what worries me about this Government 's implementation of the Children Act . |
| 4 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 5 | He wondered what reduced someone to that state , the Lowry figures who mingled with the punks and skinheads . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's what frightens me about this campaign for nuclear disarmament . |
| 7 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 8 | What attracted me to this way of speaking is that it would seem to allow for a celebration of the diversity of human beings , this held together with an emphasis on the commonness of their humanity . |
| 9 | But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter . |
| 10 | What attracted you to this particular job ? |
| 11 | He ended with one of his most beautiful and profound utterances : ‘ Do you know what frees one from this captivity ? |
| 12 | If it is then asked what drove him to this desperate end , Zande will refer you to the particular tensions and stresses of his life . |
| 13 | What concerns me in particular is how District Council is handling this and I 'll come back to that in a moment . |
| 14 | And what leads me to that conclusion is the distortion that Mr brought in , in suggesting that the estate is worth forty million pounds . |
| 15 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 16 | ‘ What enchants you in particular ? ’ he wanted to know as he downed some of his coffee . |
| 17 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 18 | Now what perplexes me about this universal condition ( perhaps the most universal of all ) is the scant attention it receives in — the literature ’ . |
| 19 | Well what do you know what brought her over this way at all ? |
| 20 | ‘ What brought you to that conclusion ? ’ |
| 21 | What brought you to this part when you , went back |
| 22 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 23 | Everything that is most important about Camus , though , lies less in what identifies him with these names , these ideas , than in what distinguishes him from them — and that is the experience of growing up in ‘ poverty and sunlight ’ in Algiers . |
| 24 | What attracts you to some slaloms and not others ? |
| 25 | What think you of that ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Aberdeen 's strength of resolve in defence was what carried them through that one , ’ he said . |
| 27 | This is what enables us in historical study to bridge the gulf between the present and the past , to enter into the experience and awareness which are opened up for us in the thoughts , beliefs , practices and social customs and institutions of other times and other cultures . |
| 28 | Michael Sendivogius was imprisoned by the Emperor Rudolph on pain of yielding his secrets , and it was he who wrote what struck me as fair comment on the Hermetic enterprise in an imaginary complaint of the alchemist to Nature : |
| 29 | But what struck me about this particular outburst , emerging as it did in the midst of the most media-intensive war in history , was its implicit assumption about the gullibility of the British public . |
| 30 | But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them . |