Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat that what is important is how a school deploys its teaching staff , not the number of people it happens to have on its books . |
| 2 | For no good reason , that settled it , by which I mean that what conscience I had was put to sleep by sheer , raging curiosity . |
| 3 | Th the doctors over there need a lot to be desired , I mean that what 's , what 's his name the eldest son of er Jim and , Jim 's next door neighbours , what 's their , their names ? |
| 4 | Ah well I mean there 's of course well I mean that what 's it you know , it 's surprising how much , that Antiques Roadshow 's |
| 5 | But I mean but what what |
| 6 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 7 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |
| 8 | On the minus side , they knew what I looked like , where I lived and what I drove . |
| 9 | She and I agreed that what we really envied them for was the power of crying when they are bored or , as an extreme measure , being sick . |
| 10 | I mean everything I have to detail down down to what payments I make and what costs I have everything is all detailed down is n't it ? |
| 11 | I realise that what I am describing , people divided in themselves , is said to characterise mental illness , and is the absolute opposite of our idea of emotional integration . |
| 12 | And more and more we 're hearing news of women working on a whole range of issues , including male violence in Africa , all parts of Africa , and the more I hear that , the more I realise that what has come out of England as revolutionary feminism is a parallel movement and does n't need to be sectarian at all in the way that maybe it 's been seen . |
| 13 | He waves his fist in the air , and I realise that what he sees is three men on the grass , with a fourth going through their pockets . |
| 14 | In saying ‘ I meant you , not Jones ’ , I am not saying what I gather from my behaviour ( though if what I say and what my behaviour seems to show seem to conflict , you will be justified in saying you do not understand me [ 67 , 136 ] ) . |
| 15 | Instead of accepting what I say and what the kids say , they wo n't accept they want peace . ’ |
| 16 | I suggest that what we are really trying to do is to re-establish contact with the earth spirit through visiting sites , to emphasize pilgrimage rather than tourism . |
| 17 | I suggest that what I have summarized in this paragraph is what lies behind Kuhn 's claim that rival paradigms are ‘ incommensurable ’ . |
| 18 | Stuart never makes me feel his pride is riding on whether we do what I suggest or what he suggests . |
| 19 | ‘ What I want and what I 'm going to get are two very different things . ’ |
| 20 | They taught me what I want and what I do n't want . ’ |
| 21 | Often , what someone says and what they really mean are two different things . |
| 22 | And then I put and what 's her name ? |
| 23 | ‘ I hope that what is happening here is not happening all over the country . |
| 24 | I ‘ I hope that what little I have been able to do will enable others to benefit , ’ said Christine . |
| 25 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 26 | He takes little interest in me apart from how I look and what my exam results are like . |
| 27 | I suspect that what you are describing may caused by the other fish nipping and damaging the fins . |
| 28 | Er I suspect that what they 've sent us is the software but not the database for any wards and the the deal was that we would get er at least er the database for two wards er and a printout annotated with telephone numbers of the er electoral register . |
| 29 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 30 | I accept that what you say is well-meant but is not it possible that you yourself … ’ |