Example sentences of "what [verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect it is incompatible both with what precedes it and more generally with other evidence of classical interpretation . |
| 2 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 3 | What , what worries me as well , is the parking . |
| 4 | What matters it if the place is a pigsty ? |
| 5 | She was wondering what caused it when all of a sudden there was an enormous explosion . |
| 6 | Could you possibly tell me what this was , what caused it and how I can prevent it from happening again ? |
| 7 | He certainly talked about such things , defended them against some of their critics ; but his business , what engrossed him and what he knew well , was the school . |
| 8 | Throughout this chapter we assume that individuals know what motivates them and can isolate their goals and discuss them separately . |
| 9 | What amazed me as the finish grew was the colour . |
| 10 | But what amazed me as I said before was their antagonism to strangers . |
| 11 | It has long been accepted that people make jokes about what frightens them and that groups who feel oppressed use humour as a way of releasing negative feelings to those in power . |
| 12 | That is what frightens me and stops me from telling her . |
| 13 | That is what frightens me and stops me from telling her . |
| 14 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 15 | For Moore the ‘ science ’ of ethics is concerned with the property or quality good — with what it is , with what possesses it , and with how to produce as much of what possesses it as possible . |
| 16 | So on one of these , I should n't be looking at that one , that 's what threw me cos first of all I did n't know you had n't got any income and then I turned that over and that was the previous policy where you were a veterinary surgeon with eighteen thousand , I thought I 'm sure that 's not right |
| 17 | We thought we did n't know what to buy you and I know you like chocolates and I know you 've started to drink sherry , so I thought well |
| 18 | When we think about those questions of individ individuation in our normal affairs , the best we can do is to say that what individuates us and also what makes us the same person through changes over time , is a great medley of factors , some of which are bodily , some of which involve our souls |
| 19 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 20 | We , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , from our young days brought up with him , awakened by a man standing on his saddle , are summoned , and arrive , and are instructed to glean what afflicts him and draw him on to pleasures , such s a play , which unfortunately , as it turns out , is abandoned in some confusion owing to certain nuances outside our appreciation — which , among other causes , results in , among other effects , a high , not to say , homicidal , excitement in Hamlet , whom we , in consequence , are escorting , for his own good , to England . |
| 21 | You see a thousand colours but what avails it if your heart is grey ? |
| 22 | Erm I tell you what tickled me when , years and years ago when Alec was alive , remember old Alec ? |
| 23 | What this means in the most simple terms is that the order of onset of the stages in the individual is determined by what occasions them as gratifications — the oral stage by suckling , the anal by evacuating solid matter , the phallic by experiencing genital , Oedipal excitement . |
| 24 | I do n't know what started it because I was n't with him . |
| 25 | Give your time not to outraged attacks on what offends you but to the more urgent and useful task of teaching pupils how to spell by considering the recurring patterns of English spelling . |
| 26 | The thirty three year old had no idea what hit him or why . |
| 27 | That 's what puzzled me and the other villagers . |
| 28 | He asks : " what se hym ne here hym ? " [ : hinders ] ( ibid ) The new " gamen " and " trauaile " of which he spoke in chapter forty is to find out . |
| 29 | What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition . |
| 30 | That is what convinces me where they would like to take us . |