Example sentences of "what you [vb mod] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 2 | K. M. Bribes were n't what you might call rife . |
| 3 | Today 's lecture is on erm what you might call female interest in sex and in particular in in the concept of erm female choice and I was struck er this morning by looking at Nature . |
| 4 | We 've never been what you might call close , me and your nan . |
| 5 | As Dinko Krajin , a policeman from Krusevo said this week , ‘ We , Hercegovinians , are what you might call radical Croats . |
| 6 | in , in what you might call hot water |
| 7 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit . |
| 9 | The project is what you might call labour-intensive . |
| 10 | She was n't what you might call strict either , but she knew it would n't be right , that their last chance was to hold on until they were married , so that , however mean and poor it was , their marriage would have that at least to make it special . |
| 11 | In what you might call quiet years . |
| 12 | It was what you might call convenient — for both of us . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 14 | In practice , there are no limits as to the pictures a magazine can publish of a naked woman ( ‘ We would start to take an interest if the pictures were of what you might term kinky sex — bondage and so on , ’ says the Scotland Yard officer ) ; yet only the mildest pictures of naked men get into high-street newsagents . |
| 15 | Are any of those other one simple , what you would consider simple ones to understand ? |
| 16 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 17 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 18 | You never can tell what you 'll do next ! |
| 19 | And this explains what you 'll do next week . |
| 20 | You could , you may , what you may feel confident in er , your employment prospects , you know , if you 're the , the most able in the village or , you know , in your little sort of , social environment |
| 21 | Consider what you could eat more of , as well as what you should cut down on . |
| 22 | S I mean t y you see , what you could work more towards is almost a sort of an agreement wi with individuals is n't it ? |
| 23 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 24 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |
| 25 | Yeah , I tell you what you could take this to school for me . |
| 26 | Well I 'll see what you can do first . |
| 27 | Have to see what you can do first . |
| 28 | I 'll get you some sandwiches and some more tea and once you 've eaten we can get down to some practical thinking about what you can do next . ’ |
| 29 | You take Shallot 's advice on this : the power of witchcraft lies in what you can make other people think . |
| 30 | It 's amazing what you can get used to . |