Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] what [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' ya know what the axis is ? |
| 2 | What d' you mean what a shame ? |
| 3 | ‘ We want him to see what the reality is , compared with the tabloid myth , ’ said a party organiser . |
| 4 | Er now let's go back over oh first of all let me explain what the idea is Hello . |
| 5 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 6 | Let us consider what the interviewer is trying to do when seeking an interview and what the reaction of the informant may be . |
| 7 | So let us see what the questionnaire can tell us . |
| 8 | … let us see what the statement of claim alleges , or rather does not allege . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe I know what the club need to check the slide . |
| 10 | I find that whenever I notice some sentence in context , I immediately find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . |
| 11 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
| 12 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 13 | No I think I know what a rose smells like . |
| 14 | after seventeen years in the business I think I know what an almond looks like |
| 15 | . I think you know what a washing machine |
| 16 | Do you know what a Gas Board ID should look like ? |
| 17 | If it 's got another consonant do you know what a consonant is ? |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know what a vestry is , children ? ’ asked a friend of mine , probably hoping that none of them did . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you know what a man in the restaurant did to me today ? ’ she said . |
| 20 | And when , in the evening , the restaurant was busy again , Tildy put down the food on the tables and said quietly , ‘ Do you know what a man in the restaurant did to me today ? |
| 21 | Ah do you know what a vowel is ? |
| 22 | This is crap this Do you know what a flat , a top roof flat roofed houses you ca n't have a mortgage . |
| 23 | Do you know what the reading was ? |
| 24 | Do you know what the equivalent of is today ? |
| 25 | ‘ Do you know what the problem is really , Andy ? ’ she asked , making her voice as sweet and low as she could . |
| 26 | So do you know what the price is going be ? |
| 27 | Do you know what the stopping distance is for 4 miles an hour ? |
| 28 | Do you know what the smack market is worth in Deptford ? |
| 29 | Do you know what the reason I hate him you know and he and he goes on my friend Garry and he goes oh you still going out with that Pakkie ? |
| 30 | Now do you know what the sound of an axe is like ? |