Example sentences of "words [verb] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 2 | His son James said : ‘ I ca n't find words to express what I feel about the people who did this . |
| 3 | She said , ‘ What 's this ? ’ it did n't matter to her what it was — a piece of stone in the hearth — just something to talk about — an embarrassed need for words to cover what she saw as his rejection . |
| 4 | Construct the nonsense words to fit what you know to be the specific difficulties of the pupils . |
| 5 | After the stridency and aggression of the school , the hate-mail , she was happy to find her temporary asylum in this gentle household where voices were never raised , where no one obsessively analysed her every sentence in the hope of detecting racist , sexist or fascist undertones , where words meant what they had meant for generations , where obscenities were unknown or at least unspoken , where there was the grace of good order symbolized for her in Mr Copley 's reading of the Church 's daily offices , Morning Prayer and Evensong . |
| 6 | Similarly young children resort to screaming because they can not use words to describe what they want . |
| 7 | She could not find words to convey what she had seen , any more than she could say aloud " Pee-Po … " and the rest . |
| 8 | I am rarely lost for words to say what I mean |