Example sentences of "what [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what Peggy said was true . |
| 2 | Instead , she remembered what Peggy had said just now : ‘ I 'll stay if you 're lonely . ’ |
| 3 | Her widowhood sat lightly on her shoulders , and from what Peggy gathered from her she had a favourite pub . |
| 4 | What Em ? |
| 5 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 6 | The need for a radical change of outlook has also been stressed by Bowen ( 1979 ) who sees progress in this direction being made by a mixture of basic and applied work by both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary endeavour diminishing what Butzer ( 1975a ) saw as particularism — the tendency for individual specialists or groups to regard their own field as the cornerstone for others . |
| 7 | No doubt we shall be told that this was exactly what General Schwarzkopf planned . |
| 8 | What all ( bar for some reason ‘ Memorial ’ Vol. 1 ) have in common is the inclusion of takes from the now-famous November 26th 1945 quintet session which represents for jazz — and bebop in particular — something akin to what Woodstock would later be for another generation ( but without the audience participation ) . |
| 9 | What Harwell 's saying is that it 's purely on commercial grounds that Dino and Pluto are to close . |
| 10 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 11 | What Acheson had in mind , principally , was the agreement to create a Vietnamese National Army ; a hopeful assessment of the agreement that had been reached after the long-drawn-out negotiations at Pau to turn local administration over to the Vietnamese early in 1951 ( although , as Acheson notes , the transfer date kept being postponed ) and de Lattre 's appointment to Indo-China . |
| 12 | What Marslen-Wilson and Tyler propose is that at the onset of a word no reduction of the cohort by context has occurred , and that initial reduction of cohort size depends solely upon sensory input , not context . |
| 13 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 14 | The European Dimensions differ in detail from their US counterparts , but are still aimed at what Roger Stone , European product marketing manager euphemistically calls ‘ the value segment ’ of the market . |
| 15 | Led by , but not restricted to , the Japanese , these were what Michalet ( 1976 ) labelled ‘ workshop ’ affiliates , to distinguish them from the earlier ‘ relay ’ affiliates that ‘ cloned ’ the business in the foreign country . |
| 16 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 17 | He and the Reverend McQueen set out after breakfast to find the ruins of what McQueen believed had been an ancient pagan temple to the goddess Anaitis . |
| 18 | Let us clarify matters by using the term notion to refer to what Wilkins calls semantico-grammatical categories , and function to refer uniquely to what Wilkins calls categories of communicative function . |
| 19 | Let us clarify matters by using the term notion to refer to what Wilkins calls semantico-grammatical categories , and function to refer uniquely to what Wilkins calls categories of communicative function . |
| 20 | What is novel in notional/functional proposals is the comprehensive inclusion , within syllabus specification , of what Wilkins calls ‘ categories of communicative function ’ . |
| 21 | There was implied , in what Vegetius wrote , a most important message : leaders did not choose themselves , but had to be chosen . |
| 22 | How is he ever otherwise to be able to contemplate what Haydn 's piece might sound like how gemütlich the piece might or might not beat Czerny 's pace ? |
| 23 | This case may be an example , more physical than usual , of what Arnold Wesker calls ‘ Lilliputianism — the poisonous need to cut other people down to size . ’ |
| 24 | But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’ |
| 25 | Erm I tell you what Melanie , you will be in uno momento . |
| 26 | I ca n't tell you what Melanie was asking me because I do n't betray other people 's confidences . |
| 27 | He paused , realizing what Pascoe had meant . |
| 28 | It occurred to her that what Pascoe had said earlier was n't at all coy ; in fact , the more she thought about it , the more carefully judged it seemed to be . |
| 29 | The Mercians would seem to have had influence in Berkshire at an earlier date in the reign of Wulfhere and the same may well have been true of Somerset , in which case what Aethelbald was doing was appropriating border territories traditionally in dispute between the Mercians and the western Saxons . |
| 30 | We need a plan of action — to find out what Hauser is doing . |