Example sentences of "[conj] what we [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Egg and bacon on each plate but one and on this one a dried up , curled-up-with-age piece of smoked fillet , or what we called finney haddock . |
| 2 | You 're for real , or what we call real , according to our limited sensory equipment . |
| 3 | They had read a book called Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach , and we were supposed to talk about what we had eaten and what we thought this meant emotionally . |
| 4 | So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic , and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like . |
| 5 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 6 | I clocked 10.42 seconds , a legal best for me , but what we needed most of all were sunshine and warmth . |
| 7 | The expectation for next year 's exactly the same as what we expected last year , alright just turned , propped out okay . |
| 8 | The truth is that for a weekly paper in something as effervescent and ethereal as pop , all that we 've done over the last 40 years is not as important as what we do next week . |
| 9 | erm He says , ‘ Just as what we think good , what we should like , has no bearing on whatever on what is , so it is for us to determine the good life . |