Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Step one , then , in intelligent persuasion is to acknowledge the status of your ‘ audience ’ through targeting what you say and how you say it to meet the specific needs of the individuals involved : the ‘ What 's in it for you ? ’ factor . |
| 2 | If you , if that 's how you remembered it tell the policeman for the description . |
| 3 | ‘ But remember how he said he lost the buckle the previous day . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was only down here the once , you know , early on when I helped you clean the kiosk up . |
| 5 | The only cleaning the house gets is when I force him to put the Hoover round on pain of a black eye . |
| 6 | It has hardly passed my lips when I find it prospecting the inside of my head . |
| 7 | And this is where I feel they have the edge over Norrington . |
| 8 | — And that 's where I reckon he got the keys . |
| 9 | If you want to know something , that 's why I let you do the ordering this last year or so . |
| 10 | That 's why I want you to take the twins to sea . |
| 11 | Why I wanted you to oversee the Project . |
| 12 | Which is why I say we run the trainer trainer 's course . |
| 13 | that 's why I say we want the carpets cleaning |
| 14 | You know when she told him to close the cupboard ? |
| 15 | Look , I do n't know why you imagine you have the right to start probing into my personal life , but take it from me that you have n't . |
| 16 | I do n't know why you think you have the right to boss us around . |
| 17 | There might be times when we let you do the whole lot or when you have to have more than one go at it . |
| 18 | It was a sad and disillusioning blow for 261 Squadron , as John Pain relates : ‘ This was the one day when we thought we had the edge . |
| 19 | Yeah , he 's there from Barnsley up Birmingham it says that were a hundred miles away where we got 'em to drop the money off |
| 20 | But he did reconsider next day , when he saw her watching the passage of the porter from the refectory before noon , and following him with her eyes as he turned in between infirmary and schoolroom , where the two small stony cells were built into the angle of the wall , close to the wicket that led through to the mill and the pond . |
| 21 | As soon as Ken Hurren mentioned the word in his office this morning , when he asked me to take the task on , I felt a secret dismay . |
| 22 | Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of ‘ human rights ’ , to mock it , to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who were n't criminals , when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door . |
| 23 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 24 | Although she understood why he wanted her to bend the truth , it still went against the grain . |
| 25 | Thereafter , much of Margarete 's unquenchable energies were devoted to telling in books and lectures what she knew of the story which Solzhenitsyn would describe definitively in his Gulag trilogy , and to trying to inoculate the young against the totalitarian virus wherever she thought she saw the threat of it . |
| 26 | The answer to both these questions must be no , since wherever we look we find the same signs of growth . |