Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 2 | This phrase may appear rather vague so I need to spell out what I mean by it . |
| 3 | Since she was sixteen she had experienced life , and none of it had been good , except that she had given birth to a daughter and also that she had found out what love was , but had experienced the painful futility of it . |
| 4 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 5 | So that you want to say exactly what is interesting and significant to you too . |
| 6 | And it seems to me that this Policy E two is not in line with with strategic guidance and if you 're not if you 're having that are there some special circumstances that mean that you have to explain particularly what it is that you you have to do . |
| 7 | The only thing I would add is that you need to find out what you are good at ; you need to find out what it is you can contribute which other people ca n't and that is something which only you can find out for yourself . |
| 8 | Hospital advertising is popular and getting ever more sophisticated so you need to find out what is on offer and who is using it . |
| 9 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 10 | The bank , which paid £70million to have its headquarters constructed , said it was ‘ delighted ’ , although it declined to say exactly what book profit it had made on the deal . |
| 11 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 12 | On the contrary , it reasserts a central truth about education which ever and again we are tempted to forget or ignore , but a truth which we neglect at peril of our immortal soul : that it does matter infinitely what we teach and learn . |
| 13 | There are now so many line trimmers on the market now that it pays to know exactly what you need and how much you are prepared to pay . |
| 14 | Worried by their absence , it was only when he had contacted the superintendent of the building — who seemed to know everything that happened in the neighbourhood — that he 'd learned exactly what had happened to Laura and the twins . |
| 15 | He would go some way to doing so if he told the House tonight that he intends to monitor carefully what is happening and to initiate independent research into the strengths and weaknesses of the new system in its initial stages . |
| 16 | The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off . |
| 17 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |
| 18 | You present a highly intriguing challenge , Miss Shannon Lea — and I intend to find out what lurks beneath that icy-cool exterior . ’ |
| 19 | You , David and I need to sort out what we need to do to implement it |
| 20 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |
| 22 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
| 23 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 24 | And since he obviously had n't recognised me , I did n't want to connect myself with the house , until I 'd found out what his game was . ’ |
| 25 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
| 26 | but I have n't written , erm cos I wanted to check exactly what day you 'd be going before I did . |
| 27 | Something important was eluding her , and until she 'd worked out what it was she did n't want to demand an explanation from him . |
| 28 | half G T half G T squared plus some constant times time normally your the the G will be a negative half A T squared but someone had said come up with that equation , and you 've said well what are you going to give me to go on well the acceleration 's constant . |
| 29 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 30 | And you have to work out what they mean by that . |