Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 2 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 3 | And I was fortunate : no one ever stopped me either to ask me for my identity card or to see what I had in my bag . |
| 4 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 5 | In presenting new material to a class , a meaning may be taught by listing or enumerating what it includes . |
| 6 | I just dare anyone to transcribe the solos on Give It All Away — from ‘ Hold Your Fire ’ or Say What You Want from Michael D'Alberquerque 's ‘ Stalking The Sleeper ’ . |
| 7 | You 'll have to promise to stop railing , because nobody must hear us , or realise what we 're doing . ’ |
| 8 | Just to deny her that role or restrict what she can offer the family to eat can be strongly resisted by her as she can lose her identity . |
| 9 | Or to sell what they catch or whatever , I mean |
| 10 | It is beyond doubt , he argues , and most psychologists and ethologists would agree , ‘ that animals act for the sake of goals , and that they may be conscious of their goals , in the quite literal sense that they may see or smell what they are after ’ ( 1975 : 19 ) . |
| 11 | His unpopularity with the more high-principled of the English derived from the same qualities , for he indulged or encouraged what they considered to be the king 's lechery and laziness . |
| 12 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 13 | Whether people like or dislike what they see is a matter of attitudes , not perceptions . |
| 14 | One of our difficulties — and one reason why debates such as this are so welcome — is that we do not yet quite understand or know what we are trying to achieve . |
| 15 | Or know what you 're talking about on the phone maybe . |
| 16 | If this happens , you should speak to your line manager , who may be able to deal with the problem , or advise what you should do . |
| 17 | I had never really felt it before or known what it meant . |
| 18 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 19 | The idea of trusting anyone , or saying what I think , I find daunting and frightening . |
| 20 | Before I entered here , I call 'd ; and thought T'have begged or bought what I have took , ; good troth , I have stol'n naught ; nor would not , though I had found Gold strew 'd i' the floor . |
| 21 | In his early work at least , Popper emphasizes the role of decisions made on the part of individuals and groups of individuals to accept or reject what I have called observation statements , and what Popper refers to as ‘ basic statements ’ . |
| 22 | Well perhaps to se se se er , you know streamline or rationalise what we 're doing I mean you know , we can we 've asked that we actually hand you in our section on this , right ? |
| 23 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 24 | Crown counsel never sought by reference to the May addendum to correct the witness or to clarify what she meant by ‘ one statement , ’ nor did he reveal to defence counsel the existence of the May addendum . |
| 25 | President Saddam Hussein on June 28 granted UN weapons inspectors [ see pp. 38165 ; 38211 ] permission to " see or inspect what they wish " . |
| 26 | Even some like-minded philosophers ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 2 ; Sanford , 1985 ) have been ready enough to take it that if c caused e in an ordinary situation then it is true , as we have it in ( 1 ) , that if c had n't occurred , neither would e , but they have omitted or denied what we now have in ( 3 ) , that it is also true that if or since c occurred , so did e . |
| 27 | Edit , cut , amend , interpolate or transpose what he will , there is — he began to realize — a dimension beyond him which he is not now able to reach or to shift . |
| 28 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 29 | In post-industrial Britain both the self-satisfied and the desperate are able to feel justified in clinging on to what they have , or grabbing what they have n't ; at no time — even in the middle of the Live Aid telethon — is there a suggestion that there might be more to life than such behaviour . |
| 30 | For example , I obviously ca n't tell you anything unless and until you hear what I 've said or see what I 've written . |