Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Opposition must withdrawn their policy , and do so today , or everyone will know what their policies mean for British Steel . |
| 2 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |
| 3 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 4 | Clicking this brings up another dialog box , where you can set which directories should be chosen , and specify the details that should select the file or files . |
| 5 | Or you can do what I have just said , which is , say ‘ I , I 've made a mistake there , I think I 'll do it again , what I want to say is this . ’ |
| 6 | Similarly , as you rework the question into your first sentence you can begin to show that key terms in the question are problematic or vague , or you can suggest what kind of evidence you will draw on to discuss the question . |
| 7 | Or you could do what my elderly neighbour does : every time she feels like decorating she pays a neighbour 's student son to come in and do it for her . |
| 8 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 9 | Or you could have whatever I had . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed , he or she will use whatever is available locally at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ If a victim is asked to write , then he or she will know what s going on . |
| 12 | She could go back to London and try and shake the whereabouts of Gilbert Racy out of his obstructive locum , or she could see what other members of the Society there were in Norfolk and glean what she might from them . |
| 13 | History , for Nicol , is not the simple matter that it seems for Crichton-Smith , ‘ because afterwards is where we live , where we can resolve what happened , according to one , according to another ’ . |
| 14 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
| 15 | The fountains in the Piazza Navona , and then the Fontana di Trevi , and the Campo de ’ Fiori where we can buy what we 'll need for our picnic — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ A tiny little place we could run ourselves , and have our own things with us , and where we could do what we liked . |
| 17 | In these circumstances , mothers have described how they turn to collective items where they can restrict what they consume . |
| 18 | Society , she says , may need to change its attitude to the perpetrators , from a climate where they are seen as ‘ monsters ’ faced with imprisonment to one where they can admit what has happened . |
| 19 | Do n't let me catch anybody else rushing about the corridor , or they 'll know what to expect . |
| 20 | You might also try to use an edition which your reader can independently get hold of , so that she or he can check what you say . |
| 21 | He seemed to take it for granted that everyone would do what he told them . |
| 22 | As she slept in her Italian-designed tube steel bed with the iron-grey duvet , she felt sure that Steve in the room across the corridor must know who was in there with her , and as she went to work next day , she felt sure that everyone must see what she was dragging with her . |
| 23 | Hundreds more will follow , prompting Mr Hildesheimer to suggest that the best commemoration would be not to perform Mozart at all until next year , so that everyone could realise what they had been missing . |
| 24 | Then , without warning , she grabbed hard and pulled it up into the air so that everyone could see what she was doing . |
| 25 | We 're holding the gains by effective communiucation between the process and QC operations and by charting the improvement so that everyone can see what has been achieved and can react quickly if they see any deterioration . |
| 26 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 27 | I was now completely in the dark and it was here that I would shoot whatever film I had onto the skirting board of my makeshift cinema . |
| 28 | Breathe on me breath of God , fill me with life anew , that I may love what thou dost love , and do what thou wouldst do . |
| 29 | Okay let's have a look at that I 'll tell what we 'll do I 'll I 'll suggest a couple of exercises in that for you to work through . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , the twins are well past the nappy stage — or I imagine they must be — and , since I 've promised Liz that I 'll look after them , you can be sure that I 'll do what I can . ’ |