Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Or you accept precisely what they do and claim it back at the end of the year .
2 ‘ I think that any down-side would more than be offset by the increased simplicity which single pricing would bring the client , allowing him or her to see exactly what they are getting . ’
3 Do n't forget that I know exactly what you 're capable of ! ’
4 Just so I know exactly what I 'm doing . ’
5 ‘ Give what ? ’ she asked , although she knew well what he meant .
6 He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said .
7 He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice .
8 The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for .
9 You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone .
10 Even so , at the very least you ought to make sure that you understand fully what you are committing yourself to before deciding whether you can afford not to press for the document to be amended .
11 Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle .
12 Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like .
13 Before we do the role plays I 'd like to discuss them to sort of , so we know exactly what we 're gon na do .
14 Once we 've got all the scripts done , I think we should erm , allocate roles to certain people behind the scene , so we know exactly what we 're doing .
15 ‘ On average I suppose it 's fair to say that they are down here once every three months so we know exactly what they want and how to give it to them . ’
16 ‘ With travel or any other service , they should satisfy themselves that they know exactly what they are buying . ’
17 With travel or any other service , they should satisfy themselves that they know exactly what they are buying . ’
18 ‘ If He was n't a God , I do n't see that it matters much what He taught .
19 Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product .
20 He was sprawled in an armchair opposite and the expression on his face clearly told her that he knew exactly what she and Jennifer had been discussing .
21 He was diffident , seemingly vague , declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching , and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter .
22 The sergeant-major fought on the Somme , where he was awarded the Military Medal , so he knows exactly what you can expect when we eventually end up in France and have to face the enemy .
23 ‘ I married for money , and I got just what I wanted .
24 And I know exactly what I want .
25 God 's going to get me back to work … and I know exactly what I 'm going to do .
26 And I thought well I I 'll do this with all summer flowers .
27 He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that .
28 And I said well I I do n't remember , he said I remember .
29 And I knew exactly what it was you they were talking about !
30 weather and I knew precisely what they meant .
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