Example sentences of "[det] of [Wh det] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alan , I do n't know half of what you 're talking about — people at work and all that- ’ |
| 2 | Maxim could n't catch half of what she was saying , but it seemed mostly on his side . |
| 3 | ‘ You have to bear in mind the consequences for the German people and some of what you are proposing goes way beyond what is acceptable . ’ |
| 4 | A person who is wrongly accused will know that he has not done that of which he is suspected , example , and may be indignant at being the object of suspicion . |
| 5 | The voice-over device ( their spoken thoughts ) only works intermittently because much of what they are thinking could be spoken . |
| 6 | Many will therefore appear relaxed and sleepy but some may not remember much of what they were told pre-operatively and may experience disorientation , alarm , pain or occasionally confusion . |
| 7 | Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry . |
| 8 | Head : ‘ Much of what we 're discussing is going round the roundabout for the second time . |
| 9 | you do n't want to hear too much of what you 're recording anyway do you ? |
| 10 | He eyed the boy a moment longer , not certain how much of what he was saying was understood , then gave a small shrug . |
| 11 | I am aware that much of what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light . |
| 12 | About individual differences , much of what I am saying here may not sound too bad , but many people will want to treat sex differences quite otherwise . |
| 13 | I did n't know how much of what I was saying he understood . |
| 14 | Er and much of what I 'm going to say today in the next twenty minutes i it 's bound in here , so there 's no need to take notes . |
| 15 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 16 | But the student who goes to his first lecture without any idea at all of what he is to face is working quite inefficiently . |
| 17 | His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself . |
| 18 | just in case there 's any more of what we was giving them . |
| 19 | I hate my rotten job and I 'm still not earning enough and I do n't see the kids enough and there are n't enough people like you with enough of whatever it is to change anything . |
| 20 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 21 | The reason why we 're having to go to a higher figure now is there are two major areas of land , er one is the land behind the railway station , the British Rail land , and the other is the land at a a location called St Nicholas Field , a former household waste site , both of which we are taking steps to bring forward for development . |
| 22 | Mr Chairman , I did n't get that last the last late one that most of what they 're saying is , comes under the authority of . |
| 23 | The influential are those who get the most of what there is to get … |
| 24 | He grasped most of what she was saying without ever quite bestowing upon her his full attention . |
| 25 | ‘ Although , of course , you wo n't need most of what I 'm telling you , ’ he grinned . |