Example sentences of "what you [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 2 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 3 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 4 | There were only four fights , proper fights , that is , one house burned — and that was an accident that Ewan apologised for most handsomely next day — nobody killed , and just six men what you might call damaged . |
| 5 | But , like , you do n't know what you might have prevented ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 6 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 7 | ‘ Because of what you might have remembered since . ’ |
| 8 | Minter would n't have paid you a penny for what you might have got out of me . |
| 9 | Who knows what you might have got if you 'd played your hand right ? ’ |
| 10 | and er Adrian , Doctor Adrian has just got his er ticket for life , now are you going to do anything , er can you imagine what you might like to work at ? |
| 11 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 12 | I mean if , if you er er the whole experience of was that you could get rent reduction and interest rate reduction relatively peacefully so you would n't get disruption etcetera and you would n't get disruption and what , what you might come to recognize as a more , a more viable agricultural system . |
| 13 | They 're just what you would expect to encounter on safari — except that the backdrop for these elephants is not the wilderness of Africa 's vast plains but the flower-bedecked veranda of a neat house . |
| 14 | A gradual shift towards a broadly social democratic position is just what you would expect to accompany a move towards a mass system . |
| 15 | And you do n't need any special clothing : ‘ Just wear what you would wear to work , ’ says Chris . |
| 16 | Position positional isomers branch chain functional group and there 's one other odd one which has a very peculiar name and the name it normally goes by is a fairly old name , now I 'm not sure at this stage if that name is still used but what I 'll do is to describe the form of the isomerism first and let you decide what you would prefer to call it . |
| 17 | We also asked you what you would prefer to do — and the picture is very different . |
| 18 | You can sue the solicitor for what you would have collected , had he done his job properly , because the law reckons he owed you , as well as his client , a duty of care . |
| 19 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 20 | Decide what you would have done if you had been Sandra , and why . |
| 21 | So that 's what you would have done with the corn The hay was the hay the stalk ? |
| 22 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |
| 23 | ‘ It was what you would have wanted , Papa , was it not ? ’ she whispered . |
| 24 | If you wait the full five years , the pension will be one-third higher than what you would have received at age 60 . |
| 25 | That is what you would have paid for it in 1982 . |
| 26 | Notice that the prices quoted are the rough cost of buying a new item and £700 is what you would have to pay extra to create a whole new second machine . |
| 27 | In other words what you would have got |
| 28 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 29 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 30 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |