Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chart could then be used as the basis for an essay or a piece of revision and — although the words used might be different — you would , in fact , end up by saying just what I said in that portion of text above . |
| 2 | If you think you 're going to persuade me to retract what I said in that article , you 're a bigger — ’ |
| 3 | I think what I say in that book may be sensitive , so I keep it always on my body , and in Finnish . |
| 4 | Meh'Lindi , I need to confide what I learned in that conclave … ’ |
| 5 | You can either type your data into this form — which is what I did in this instance — or you can import data from an Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet or from a Delimited ASCII file . |
| 6 | She had simply , and thoughtlessly , intended to kill what she had in any case thought of as an insincere proposal . |
| 7 | God alone knows what she saw in that brute . |
| 8 | ‘ T is what you thought in that hut , if you recall . ’ |
| 9 | He remarked , " I got rid of what you saw in that hole out there . |
| 10 | ‘ Be careful what you murmur in each other 's ears , you two , ’ she advised . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what you get in this house , ’ he said , without explaining precisely what it was you got . |
| 12 | ‘ My lord , I entreat you to believe that what you find in this letter was honestly written and honestly meant . |
| 13 | I do understand the need for regional education because clearly it 's less expensive , but it 's not just what you learn in that classroom at National College and any of , anybody who 've been there will know that . |
| 14 | You have to take what you want in this world , ’ he husked , his eyes reducing her to weakness . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've always maintained that most of us get what we deserve in this life , ’ Wendell said . |
| 16 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 17 | While the Scene is darken 'd , a single Entry is danced ; Then a Symphony is play 'd ; after that the Scene is suddainly Illuminated , and discovers a transparent Prospect of a Chinese Garden , the Architecture , the Trees , the Plants , the Fruit , the Birds , the Beasts , quite different from what we have in this part of the World . |
| 18 | What matters is not how long we spend in Committee , so that we can report those hours to people outside , but what we achieve in that time . |
| 19 | What we say in this chapter is simplified . |
| 20 | ‘ I sometimes think , ’ said one of the proponents , ‘ that what we need in this country is a dictatorship . |
| 21 | ‘ It means , ’ said Duvall holding up one of the paraffin cans , ‘ that we have to burn what we found in that car wreck outside . ’ |
| 22 | While I am sure that there may indeed be any number of genuine psychics and astrologers who can do precisely what they claim in this field , what is to prevent charlatans telling you that you were a Roman gladiator , a druid or even Napoleon ? |
| 23 | She 's so flighty and daffy and he 's so glum and boring — you always wondered what they saw in each other . |
| 24 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 25 | That 's what they do in that film . |
| 26 | He said he does n't look a bit like he in real life what he does in that film does he ? |
| 27 | But there was always what he calls in this note ‘ the loyal conviction that Christ is both necessary and true ’ . |
| 28 | At Rosthwaite he spotted what he knew in this district could pass for an inn . |
| 29 | In August he was again complaining of tiredness ; there was no doubt that like most other Englishmen he was experiencing what he described in another context as a general weariness of war and desire for peace . |
| 30 | Kingsley is almost alone in saying what he means in this respect . |