Example sentences of "[conj] what [pers pn] [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 By this we do not mean to imply that any old interpretation will do because , clearly , there are standards involved in any inference from the data materials to the theory , be this a substantive sociological theory or what we have referred to as an instrumental theory .
2 Or what they cost to buy in ? ’
3 The theatricality that the Mann children seem obsessively caught up in tells us little about their personalities or what they like to eat , play at , wear or do after school .
4 If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it .
5 every day now , now I mean I do n't know how many she 's got living in there or what they 've got living in there , they stay
6 When drafting your notes , do think about whether you have provided the report recipients with what they want to read or what they want to consider .
7 I do n't know whether they have to pay income tax or what they have to do .
8 It 's always a great temptation to look around , see what other people are doing or what they have got and want to be like them .
9 And you can do it by taking one from t' other but more useful er , I would suggest , is to work out a planned performance or what I 've called a planned performance , er , this 'll be in your , in your notes as well , er which equals planned expenditure over planned er , income or allowance .
10 What I 've had to do this year , or what I 've chosen to do this year
11 In my last article in the magazine I told you all about my trip to Saudi Arabia , but I did n't tell you why I went or what I hope to do next .
12 This , he wished it to be understood , was a duty to God incumbent on him personally , one that he couched in the words of the Confiteor : ‘ And I pray to God that you will not stop because of what I have done or what I have failed to do . ’
13 But , before we turn to the left 's criticism , it is both necessary and instructive to look at how the dominant rightwing , or what I have termed here ‘ mainstream criticism ’ , dealt with these films .
14 But I came through all that and thought , I 'm never going to feel guilty about how I feel again , or what I want to do .
15 Or what I want to know is but the question is
16 Someone asked me whether , I thought it 'd be a bit of fun But as I say nobody knows who you are , or what you 've said or anything so it does n't matter does it ?
17 No matter what you are or what you 've done , I ca n't wait to feel myself moving inside you , burn up in your flame . ’
18 I do n't understand what it is you want , or what you have to do with Spiderglass , or even how you got me away from them .
19 What , what we need to do we 've got a handout for you on this so you can spend more time looking at yourself , or what you need to do is you need to compare your scores against those rather than just take the highest one .
20 Er I suspect that what they 've sent us is the software but not the database for any wards and the the deal was that we would get er at least er the database for two wards er and a printout annotated with telephone numbers of the er electoral register .
21 Exploitation for Marx is the process by which a group of people are deprived of the full value of their labour so that what they have lost becomes a surplus for another group who obtain this element .
22 they came up to you if there 's two women together they assume that they have the right to talk to you , that you 're going to be interested in them , and if you tell them to get lost however politely , you can get a very , very unpleasant response because they assume that what they have to say is more important !
23 Children who do put their claims in writing are then told that what they have written will be shown to the teacher they are accusing .
24 I would just say that what we 've done , we looked at the hospital , we looked at the youth building and at the moment we 've come up with the idea of the s the back room , the second room across the corridor , erm where we actually store some of the T I C books and pamphlets .
25 You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today .
26 It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours .
27 Erm having considered this , I think that what we 've tried to do in the economic activity projections is to try and estimate job need and to try and balance that with an appropriate level of provision to meet that need .
28 I think that what we 've got is the acceptance by the designers and the planners of the class system that they knew
29 And it might be that what we 've got to do is t is to change that to perhaps include P Way .
30 On the question of the public conveniences erm I feel there 's been a lot of discussion about this , this kind of issue and I feel that what we 've got now is a good agreement erm , we 've got still providing a good level of service with attendance at the central I do n't like referring to conveniences , at the time that they are most needed and I think that now I would n't like to see us go without that if we do n't really need to .
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