Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was Signals that offered just what we need before settling down on Saturday night with soft cushions and iron rations : a clear summary , and the chance to fix on the central characters in this huge dramatic tapestry . |
| 2 | Again , it is a matter of personal preference whether you prepare the bud or rootstock stem first , but until you have had some practice and know just what is involved , I suggest that you start with the bud . |
| 3 | Then join the World Wide Fund for Nature 's fun quiz and see just what you 've learned . |
| 4 | He had devoted Sunday evening to making a plan of action and knew exactly what he and everyone else he could press into service was going to be doing this morning . |
| 5 | In each sentence , the subject and object are hinged together by the connecting verb , the verb that shows just what the subject is doing to the object . |
| 6 | ‘ The only thing left to do is to sort through that pile of things we cleared out of the cupboards and throw away what we do n't need anymore . ’ |
| 7 | Child law expert Mr Babbington said : ‘ She is a bright girl and knew exactly what she wanted . |
| 8 | This time he heard a click and knew instantly what it was . |
| 9 | All the time during each turn it is essential to have a plan for the worst contingency and to know exactly what you would do if you suddenly lost 200 feet . |
| 10 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 11 | A man , passing her , took one startled look and reflected anew what a very unwise policy was the current one of closing nineteenth-century asylums and turning the inmates loose into an alarmed and inadequate society . |
| 12 | This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing . |
| 13 | Verbatim notes are used where you want to record everything that is being said in a lecture or copy exactly what appears in print in a book or magazine article . |
| 14 | The more you relish the moment and remember exactly what it felt like and what movements were involved , the better . |
| 15 | A bustling market , dark , smokey houses and a busy wharf have all been re-created in accurate detail so that you can experience in sight , sound and smell exactly what it was like to live and work in the Viking city of Jorvik . |
| 16 | Light claims the NHS comes out badly on the Cochrane test for effectiveness ; it is worse than most systems in not treating patients in the most effective place and preventing only what is preventable and poor on openly evaluating effectiveness against non-established alternatives and minimising ill timed interventions . |
| 17 | So he took religion terribly seriously , but he believed in science and he looked at the Bible and said well what does this really mean ? |
| 18 | He still felt extremely nervous about what might happen once they left the warren and had decided that the best way to avoid trouble would be to keep close to Hazel and do exactly what he said . |
| 19 | If you do n't know anything about computers , just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result . |
| 20 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 21 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 22 | Since the relationships were all in fives , one could tell if a particular category was missing from our present knowledge and predict roughly what kind of new organism would eventually be discovered to fill the gap . |
| 23 | Entitled The Special Edition , it restored around 17 minutes of original unscreened footage , filling in more background to Ripley 's material angst and showing exactly what happened to Newt 's parents and the other settlers on the Alien 's planet . |
| 24 | He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music . |
| 25 | It is intended to research , firstly , the changing expectations that have been held of the physical environment and to consider just what both official bodies and NGOs think an appropriate environment should be like . |
| 26 | The compilers of the catechism seemed to have no doubt that it was perfectly possible to define God and say precisely what he is . |
| 27 | ‘ Sit in that chair an' listen ter what I 've got to say . ’ |
| 28 | More unhappiness and depression is caused because the person who is suffering spends too much time regretting or resenting what has happened in the past or anticipating fearfully what may occur in the future . |
| 29 | That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want . |
| 30 | Well my first reason would be that it 's fun but if you want a justification then all I can say is that it is still useful to be able to produce your own programs that do exactly what you want . |