Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] what [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're still faced with looking for what they really want . |
| 2 | Well , she had shrugged her shoulders metaphorically at that , and oh , how she wished that she had heeded him , instead of going on what she now saw clearly had been her wilful way . |
| 3 | But , and , but Marks and Spencers are really going , and there are plenty of other firms beside them who do it , but they are going beyond what they strictly have to do by law . |
| 4 | 51% of managers said they were playing it safe and upgrading their current central processing system , 29% said they are sticking with what they already have whilst some 16% said they would be downsizing to a mid-range system . |
| 5 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |
| 6 | Or you may be making transitions from one point to another that do not follow in logical sequence , not building on what you already know . |
| 7 | Nor do they need their daily practice to be exposed to the analytic eye of anthropological ‘ thick description ’ , for in their task-driven world there is little to be gained by reflecting on what they already live and understand . |
| 8 | And now just to spend the rest of the lecture elaborating on what I just said . |
| 9 | Yet no-one could ever have doubted either his sincerity or integrity in fighting for what he always felt was right for the game . |
| 10 | I suggest you spend a long time thinking about what you really want . ’ |
| 11 | Er , right , shh shh er right people , shh er you might find that once you start thinking about what you actually believe , it gets quite complicated I just want you to listen to this . |
| 12 | I mean , I 'm not messing against what anybody else does , and I would n't try and interfere with what anybody else does , but I would n't get involved with them . |
| 13 | ‘ Nonsense , Saul ! ’ said Araminta , smiling in what she evidently felt to be a winning fashion . |
| 14 | At about the same time , the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technology was working on what it ambitiously claimed would ultimately be the first full-length computer-generated feature , The Works . |