Example sentences of "[coord] what [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise as meaningless as any other gesture , as deeply rooted in the moment , in how one is feeling or what one has eaten or who one has been seeing . |
| 2 | Of all the recent authors it is perhaps Jeffreys who has developed the most thorough analysis of permissiveness or what she refers to as the ‘ sexual revolution ’ . |
| 3 | Only she does n't care much for things or what she eats , what she wants are people , action . |
| 4 | She knows , but does not know why she knows , or what she knows . |
| 5 | but then obviously that 's all he does or what he does I mean which is |
| 6 | Androgyny , or what he calls the ‘ liberal supposition ’ that it is good for men and women to become more and more alike , creates in Mailer an aversion , ‘ a species of aesthetic nausea ’ ( pp. 134 — 5 ) . |
| 7 | At the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge , Dr John Cummings has built his reputation on the importance of dietary fibre ( or what he calls non-starch polysaccharides ) . |
| 8 | Federalism , or what he calls ‘ stratified systems of governance ’ , will help to bring order out of confusion . |
| 9 | Havelock , like Goody , sees these changes as ‘ generated by changes in the technology of the intellect , or what he calls the ‘ technology of preserved communication ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 10 | The British seeker lost in the German metaphysical jungle , the homecomer from Paris dinner-parties armed with the latest idea , or what he hopes may pass for that , are abiding images for fun-making ; and cultural insularity is a vice to be levelled against the British only by those who do not know them , though those who do sometimes have cause to wish it were true . |
| 11 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 12 | Managing director of International Software , Richard North , says that , while the Brentford , Middlesex company generates 70% of its revenues from reselling software and providing support services to approximately 4,500 customers — or what he claims to be 20% of the UK corporate market — it earns the remaining 30% from negotiating favourable licence deals with software vendors on behalf of large organisations . |
| 13 | The voters , it is said , ‘ do not know who he is or what he stands for ’ . |
| 14 | Stuart never makes me feel his pride is riding on whether we do what I suggest or what he suggests . |
| 15 | If the tests are negative at the time of the initial examination , it is quite a good idea to ask the doctor whether he thinks there is likely to be any infection present or what he believes your symptoms are due to . |
| 16 | As an index it is rather unsatisfactory since it tells us very little about how active a person is or what he believes … |
| 17 | But no matter who the attacker is , or what he intends to do , the rule remains the same : seize the initiative and keep it . |
| 18 | " I do n't care what happens , or what anyone thinks of me , if I can be with you sometimes . " |
| 19 | The supply of money is assumed to be determined by government : what the government chooses it to be , or what it allows it to be by its choice of the level and method of financing the PSBR . |
| 20 | An author may expect his or her reader to have at least a general idea of when the Vikings lived , or what it feels like to be bullied , or to be able to cope with simple scientific concepts , or to know the general geography of the USA . |
| 21 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 22 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 23 | It does not know quite where it belongs , or what it stands for . |
| 24 | But once you got well into the business of the removal , y one forgets , you see , and you forget exactly what you 're carrying or what it appears to be that you 're carrying . |
| 25 | They may know nothing about media selection , or how to produce a TV commercial , or what it costs to buy a 20 cm × 5 cols space in the Finchley Advertiser . |
| 26 | In assuming that it may be rational to be a sceptic about value alone , we had stopped at an uncomfortable halfway house between philosophy and common sense , between the pure thinker who doubts everything and the plain man who questions neither what he sees nor what he likes or dislikes . |
| 27 | It is based on what the speaker wants to announce as his/her starting point and what s/he goes on to say about it . |
| 28 | As is often the case , what one actually hears and what one thinks one hears , can be two very different things . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps with Clinton , and what one hopes will be a breath of fresh air , members of Congress will respond by saying its time to take Hoover 's name down . |
| 30 | Job satisfaction or dissatisfaction is a function of the perceived relationship between what one wants from one 's job and what one sees it as offering or entailing . |