Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicknamed the Dottore sottile ( " subtle doctor " ) , he had become reconciled in the 1980s with Craxi , whom he had previously criticized for what he regarded as his autocratic attitudes . |
| 2 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 3 | I think he lived off what he stole until he met Otto . |
| 4 | Park was perhaps the most influential early member of this group and it was he who , in tracing this transition , distinguished between what they called the ‘ biotic ’ and ‘ cultural ’ levels of human behaviour . |
| 5 | Bacharach and Lawler ( 1980 ) distinguish between what they call the bases of power ( or what is controlled that enables behaviour to be changed ) and sources of power ( or how individuals or groups come to control the bases of power ) . |
| 6 | Partly as a response to this we distinguish between what we regard as essential capacities of humans and the question of how , or whether , they are exercised . |
| 7 | Yes they can erm , distinguish between what I call a do-it-yourself alarms and th the recognized companies . |
| 8 | Second , related to the first and to the awareness of being in their own skin , they learn that it is proper and effective to signal for what they need . |
| 9 | ‘ I join the martyrs , punished for what I believe . |
| 10 | I think it 's to make us realise that you get punished for what you do , but it does n't 20 work like that . |
| 11 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 12 | A man who cared about what he did . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman just thinks about what he is saying , he will realise that it takes a Government one or two years to bring the economy round . |
| 14 | Many people feel afraid to say that they are angry and show it , and end up apologising for what they are going to say , for example , ‘ I hope you do n't mind me saying this but … ’ rather than ‘ I feel disappointed/ angry/taken for granted/cross . ’ |
| 15 | Long into the night he sobbed , weeping for what he had lost , and for what he had become . |
| 16 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 17 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 18 | This sounds well on the B flat instrument , but must have been even more thrilling on the F trumpet for which it was written . |
| 19 | This sort of evidence should be carefully examined for what it is worth . |
| 20 | Strawson is surely right to emphasise the distinction we currently make between what we regard as non-intentional and intentional behaviour , and to remind us that we react to these categories in very different ways . |
| 21 | It is helpful for them to recognize that if they intend to carry through what they say , they may need to reduce the number of demands that they make on the child . |
| 22 | But however much he 's awarded , Peter says it 'll never compensate for what he 's lost . |
| 23 | But Bill says no amount of money can truly compensate for what he describes as three years of pain . |
| 24 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 25 | Erm there 's the P W P five year thing which , which we 've got to erm cover for which we 've covered as two F T E for the six months and then we 'll need to review that after that . |
| 26 | After much remonstrating during which I was told very kindly and politely that there was no problem , till I felt like tearing my hair out , I was sent to sit in a corner ( just a woman you see ) and Mr Fleming was ushered off to meet an official , rush off somewhere and come back with a piece of paper which was duly stamped , passport returned , and off we went to meet our contact , who explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem . |
| 27 | If they were assertive and asked for what they wanted rather than ‘ manipulated ’ , they would in many cases be more successful . |
| 28 | There was no menu ; you simply asked for what you wanted . |
| 29 | I was a street-woman , I asked for what he suggested . |
| 30 | Dr Rolleston was retiring quietly to let a younger man prepare for what we were beginning to think was inevitable . |