Example sentences of "what they [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yes I mean it we d d d it 's slightly different , they have a slightly different view of things and on what they use a lot more than we do is wall textiles . |
| 2 | If their new buildings did not look like churches they had a right to say that people should re-examine what they thought a church ought to look like . |
| 3 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 4 | Besides , he was what they felt a doctor ought to be : a family man , with authority and good humour . |
| 5 | What they had a railway run down from there ? |
| 6 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 7 | " You 're what they call a litter bug . " |
| 8 | And of course the harness was what they call a harness , you know your buckles used to that over that and they were on . |
| 9 | And at that time nearly everybody had a bed with a mattress made of straw , and on top of this mattress , straw mattress they used to have what they call a tick , flock , flock tick . |
| 10 | They did that with me with Hannah , right , they , when er , she had B P P done , what they call a B P P , when they do a prick of the baby |
| 11 | Now researchers at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine in Oxford say they have found what they call a candidate gene which they think is likely to make someone vulnerable to asthma . |
| 12 | And you used to have what they call a wick in it you know to light it and turn it down at night time and blow it out down the . |
| 13 | He used to , what they call a haemophilia , bleeds from the nose a lot . |
| 14 | Every product has what they call a life cycle , like a curve on a graph , rising up from development on to a plateau of maturity , until finally the product curve declines . |
| 15 | ‘ Here in Paris I 'm what they call a touche-à-tout ( Jack of all trades ) in literature , architecture and graphic design . |
| 16 | Erm , a couple of days ago , that 's what they call a surprise action |
| 17 | But if you did that the law does give you what they call a cooling off period . |
| 18 | Now that 's what they call a bank holiday outing . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the campaigners say their protest against what they call a refugee prison will go on . |
| 20 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 21 | That 's right yes , yeah that bit that was just like what they call a swan neck , just like the swan and that was like that and so it kept me at load level , they were built by and some of the best cranes I 've ever known on the dock . |
| 22 | With the report erm , I have circulated copies to each of the group 's spokesmen , there was a couple of charts which indicate what the current situation is with er , spending as against S S A , and if the Home Office move to er , a fir what they call a fire station based S S A , what the position would be . |
| 23 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 24 | My father used to have what they call a lead line that used to be a wire with a all marked with feet and fathoms on and sound and |
| 25 | You must always buy what they call a carrier oil to help mix the oils . |
| 26 | And pages from their petition were delivered to 10 Downing Street , asking the Prime Minister to end what they call a monopoly . |
| 27 | They 're doing what they call a job wise which is probably som something , they fill in a questionnaire which say whatever |
| 28 | That does n't mean I started parking cars ; it 's what they call a caddie who waits in the club ‘ s parking lot for a bag . |
| 29 | He and the others say they 'll fight on against what they call a crime against humanity : |
| 30 | I think that 's what they call a cowslip now . |