Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving very young children too much choice over when to get up , what to wear or what they eat for breakfast can be a recipe for disaster — acrimonious arguments , delays and tantrums . |
| 2 | ‘ You were quite right to come and what you 've told me may be important . |
| 3 | This sort of thing is going to increase and what we 're saying is beware . |
| 4 | A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway . |
| 5 | It divides into the critical parent , the judgemental voice in our heads , giving us instructions and punishment , how to behave and what we should do ; and the nurturing parent who cares for us , and meets our needs , supports , helps and educates . |
| 6 | The initial dialogue too , includes queries about when you wish to retire and what you require for breakfast . |
| 7 | Surely the needs of the members should come before the administrative easiness of putting people into sections for the Union and as I 've said who better to judge where they need to go and what their needs are than the members themselves . |
| 8 | It is very much up to individual groups to decide how long they want to go out , where they want to go and what they want to do , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 9 | Write a letter to its Publicity Department requesting a visit and stating what it is you want to see and what you are hoping to find out . |
| 10 | And what you will have to do , you will have to tell each other what you would like to buy or what you would think of . |
| 11 | The only difference between what Daniel had to endure and what my children have endured is that I am still alive and have plucked up the courage to divorce my husband . |
| 12 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Did you think , ’ his prosecution pressed him , ‘ that what you were doing , what you were being asked to do or what you had done might be wrong ? ’ |
| 15 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 16 | At that stage in my life , I had had no real careers guidance and had very little idea of what I wanted to do or what I was capable of . |
| 17 | When you use this you are editing the event as you record it so you need to have a clear plan as to what you want to record and what you do n't . |
| 18 | As the Warriors moved on , the section commanders continued to tell their men over the vehicle briefing system what they were to do and what they should expect . |
| 19 | The tables on page 54 show what men have done , what they 'd like to do and what they have no intention of doing . |
| 20 | However , in both regimes there was a difference in what they aimed to do and what they actually achieved . |
| 21 | If a giant has come to town the children will allow you to have your council meeting to discuss what the townspeople should do about it , but what they really want to do and what they will learn most from is dealing with the giant . |
| 22 | The beliefs and ideas that organisations hold about who they are and what they are trying to do and what their environment is like have a much greater tendency to realise themselves than is usually believed . |
| 23 | ‘ We have to decide what we are going to do and what our approach will be . ’ |
| 24 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 25 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 26 | That there is a real disjunction between what the ideal institution ought to do and what it does can be seen in yet another attempt to describe the BBC as the ideal typical ‘ public service , institution . |
| 27 | This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden . |
| 28 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |
| 29 | They do n't know what you intend to do and what you 've actually done . |
| 30 | and , and what you 're trying to do and what you hope to get out of it , |