Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth just noting about it , totting up what we 've voted to spend , |
| 2 | What well mainly what what is the I mean , these thinner ones , presumably they would do the job as well as I do n't know I mean , it 's keeping out What I want to do is to keep out the sun . |
| 3 | Plenty of housing if those stupid farts at the council got round to repairing it and stopped their tenants tearing apart what they have got . |
| 4 | Some stairs , and then around a corner where a staff pay phone hung under a grey plastic hood on the wall , and she was looking down what she guessed had to be the dressing-room corridor . |
| 5 | As with older children we use the story as the possible starting point , but shift the point of view , so that they are not simply acting out what they have heard but rather they are making decisions which affect the drama . |
| 6 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 7 | Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into . |
| 8 | In the office he stood very close to her , pointing out what he 'd written . |
| 9 | Do n't pay any money without a receipt stating explicitly what you 've paid for . |
| 10 | Just complete the booking form opposite , listing up to five choices of accommodation in order of preference and indicating approximately what you wish to pay , and send the form to us . |
| 11 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |
| 12 | He went through all the drills saying exactly what I had said previously , and did everything right . |
| 13 | I have never found anything yet that will stop a squirrel doing precisely what it wants to do when it wants to do it , whatever that is what it wants to do . |
| 14 | Polly laid her palms against the strong hard face she loved so much , knowing exactly what she wanted to do with the rest of her life . |
| 15 | People forget these things , she thought , they do not bear them in mind , doctors work to routine , finding only what they expect to find , they glimpse these cases in a newspaper and then pass on , they are hide-bound , they do not remember . |
| 16 | Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them , and the Sea because it has always frustrated me , destroying what I have built , washing away what I have left , wiping clean the marks I have made . |
| 17 | " I thought now was supposed to be the marvellous time , and we 're all meant to be living it up , burning the candle at both ends , finding out what we want to do with our lives . " |
| 18 | Charles had n't planned beyond finding out what he wanted to know and had to think quickly . |
| 19 | But there 's more than one way of finding out what you need to know — start a conversation around the subject , use friends or people in the news as examples — you can find out how he feels about their situation , without relating it directly to you . |
| 20 | They delivered a letter to the Chancellor today setting out what they think need to get their wheels turning again . |
| 21 | He was very still , as if he was weighing up what she 'd said . |
| 22 | Roger : We have a team of people in Job Broking Branch and two people on loan from South West who are working out what we need to do next . |
| 23 | The teacher 's role is to help students to progress from considering what the characters do to working out what they need to say in order to achieve the same result in similar circumstances . |
| 24 | Forward planning consists simply of working out what you have to do to make a success of your course , working out how much time you require to complete the tasks and then breaking those tasks down into weekly schedules . |
| 25 | * Start to write immediately ; use writing as a way of working out what you want to say ( pp. 22 – 4 ) . |