Example sentences of "what [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What impresses me in Messner is the combination he has of immense boldness and analytical power . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what bugs me about the experience . |
| 3 | What influences them inside their heads to actually go for a certain destination . |
| 4 | In your time , Messer Niccolò , you have maimed and killed men in the flower of their youth : what disgusts you about murder in other forms ? |
| 5 | If that 's what turns you on that 's fine by me , but please leave me out of them . |
| 6 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 7 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 8 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 9 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |
| 10 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
| 11 | What separates them from the dwindling ranks of mediocre C86-type bands are their songs : sparkling things that are packed full of love-drenched sentiments , mood-lifting hooklines and wonderful tunes . |
| 12 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 13 | It is accepted that what separates us from the other creatures sharing our planet is our capacity to think . |
| 14 | ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms . |
| 15 | That 's what has them on the run although , in the end , they 'll be forced to give birth . |
| 16 | What has he to be sure of now in that quarter ? |
| 17 | ‘ If he 's allowed to go , what has he in mind ? |
| 18 | What worries me at the moment about the proposals is that there is discrimination not only against the United Kingdom but against Europe in the way in which the Commission is carrying out the negotiations with the United States . |
| 19 | What worries me about a desire for achievement which finds its vindication solely in number is the externality of it all . |
| 20 | Clearly that 's what worries me about this Government 's implementation of the Children Act . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Right so what causes you to be distressed , stressed ? |
| 23 | Who or what causes you to be stressed ? |
| 24 | ‘ That 's what frightens me about this campaign for nuclear disarmament . |
| 25 | But what fills me with fury is not only the massive betrayal of the women he raped who will probably be traumatised for the rest of their lives . |
| 26 | What sustains me in the search for a response to Gettier is the feeling that it may be possible to find an account of what knowledge is which will have a substantial effect on what we are to say about justification in later parts of this book . |
| 27 | What concerns me in particular is how District Council is handling this and I 'll come back to that in a moment . |
| 28 | And what leads me to that conclusion is the distortion that Mr brought in , in suggesting that the estate is worth forty million pounds . |
| 29 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 30 | In many fish , and in particular fish such as carp which frequently live in turbid water , chemoreception is what leads it to food . |