Example sentences of "what [verb] [pers pn] achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can delude ourselves , and we could delude others , as to the real situation here , and what do we achieve ? |
| 2 | What did they achieve last week , |
| 3 | When the Profitboss takes coffee with Wally Brown , the fork-lift driver , he 'll ask him straight : Wally , what did you achieve yesterday ? " |
| 4 | And what had it achieved ? |
| 5 | He was almost certain that he had found him , that he could say , ‘ Our McCloy was here , ’ and yet what had he achieved but dredge up a tiny segment of McCloy 's life ? |
| 6 | ‘ What 've they achieved then ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What does s/he achieve by being so defiant ? |
| 8 | The real question is what does it achieve , why do people go through all this stuff . |
| 9 | What have we achieved ? |
| 10 | As the first six months of the Campaign end , we can ask ourselves : what have we achieved and at what cost ? |
| 11 | What have we achieved ? |
| 12 | Well if there 's a commercial activity you could argue that but i , in the chu , context of the church what have we achieved ? |
| 13 | ‘ But you were n't supported and it did n't work … so what have you achieved ? ’ she asked sarcastically . |
| 14 | What have you achieved ? |
| 15 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
| 16 | What have I achieved ? … ’ |
| 17 | He thought : " I 'm forty-five next week and what have I achieved ? |