Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] what [pron] " in BNC.

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1 And I 've no idea what they came for or what they took . ’
2 They may think that they are realistically aware of what they are letting themselves in for and what they need to know about each other 's strengths and weaknesses .
3 What he says they were intended for and what their actual use was to be , were , I suspect , quite different . ’
4 A thorough self-assessment will help you get totally clear in your own mind what you are most suited for and what you actually want .
5 Now , are we sticking with the allocation that we had in the past , peoples responsibility , or when we change them in this sort of way are we mucking them about ? 'Cos I like to know what I am responsible for and what I 'm not .
6 Each person chooses what he is sceptical about and what he believes without scepticism .
7 Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six
8 is what it is like or what it is like in words .
9 I felt I knew what addicts ' lives are like and what they think they 're getting from dope .
10 I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body .
11 ‘ We went to one beforehand just so I could see what it was like and what you did .
12 I did n't show you the , the grade and the stage curves because we all know what they look like but what I 'm saying is that by doing the count provides us with additional information on this group of patients .
13 Beliefs are not what you think about but what you think with …
14 Bear in mind that when the chips are down , we tend to revert to what we feel comfortable with and what we think has worked effectively in the past .
15 This ‘ raw material ’ is formed through an interaction between what we are born with and what we live through , or as James Michener puts it : ‘ Heredity establishes the perimeters of what we can accomplish ; environment determines whether we acquire the character to reach those perimeters ’ ( 1976 , p.130 ) .
16 Who she was with and what they had done .
17 We asked people to keep a diary of what they were doing and to fill in this diary every half an hour , saying where they were , who they were with and what they were doing , and we were able to see erm first of all that the range of people that you meet decreases when you 're unemployed , that you 're actually spending more time alone , less time with friends and other people .
18 Here , however , all similarity between the piece Lucien was familiar with and what he saw being performed before him ended .
19 The polarising thinker needs to know what he is to agree with and what he must attack .
20 I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’
21 Now earlier this evening you mentioned Chris who you er play squash with and what I 'd
22 The fresh foods manager will walk us round , with the store manager in the morning , and we have er , whatever they say , we have a meeting , and I have feedbacks to start , and I say what I 'm happy with and what I 'm not .
23 It 's not what I believe in or what I can see and touch that 's the most important , it 's the unseen reality behind physical appearances … .
24 In their grander moments the Welsh would claim most ancient associations — the luminous legendary King Arthur — and boast they had supplied England with its greatest monarchs — out of Owen Tudor — Henry VII , Henry VIII , Elizabeth I. ‘ They are an alien race , ’ wrote Burton , ‘ and nobody knows where they came from or what they are . ’
25 If he has ‘ style ’ he does n't know where it came from or what it is .
26 To consolidate this success the railway is currently carrying out an extensive passenger survey to find out where its existing customers come from and what they think of the railway .
27 Basically what happens when you start signing on is you go into a national unemployment computer , and that national unemployment computer will pick up , as long as you 've got the date of birth and the national insurance number , you can pick up when a person started signing o and where they 're signing , you then check with the local office to see what address they 're claiming from and what their claiming for and everything else .
28 ‘ I had to tell him where I was coming from and what I was about , ’ she frowns , upper lip curling in disdain .
29 I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her .
30 If we consider sources of stress as ‘ stressors ’ which build up to form a number of pressures , then it becomes possible to identify where stress is coming from and what it can ultimately lead us to .
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