Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean .
2 And I 'm not a clever lass , I 'm what you would call a b … fool . ’
3 So what you 're what you can be sure of getting from us is absolutely on line and of course you 're getting a service .
4 She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’
5 Oh you know she is what she is what she 'll be .
6 James Bruxner , chairman of the SWA , said : ‘ We are what you might call pleasantly welcoming .
7 Often they are what we would call eye-witness accounts .
8 ‘ Diggers , , ploughers , male and female , they are what I must draw continually .
9 They 're what you might call a very catholic collection : flagellation , paedophilia , coprophilia ( sorry , I forget you 're not an aficionado — the sexual dimension of shit — J. Joyce had leanings that way ) , along with the usual nuns-and-donkeys sort of stuff .
10 Er and they were what we would call medium to heavy type of er engineering .
11 and then find what it 's what we can do to stop it triggering and carrying that reaction on and on and on and on or turning it back .
12 erm I think in terms of techniques is is is a level of awareness really , to be able to respond to children erm with their curiosity and with their erm expressions of anxiety erm in a way that makes it all right for them to be feeling the way they are , and I do n't think it 's simple as just saying a technique , I think it 's what we can offer as adults comes from an inner awareness that we have as adults , that we can convey to our children , because it 's not just the techniques , or the behaviour , or the words that we use , but it 's those feelings behind the words .
13 It 's what we used to do if we took them off a line and got them cleaning up , it 's a token tow pound ten a day .
14 After much consideration their contribution to Pot of Gold will go out … their manager says it 's what they would have wanted …
15 It 's what they 'd expect . ’
16 Yeah but it 's not the size it 's what they can do with it in n it ?
17 Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk .
18 He says now he 's got the — ca n't remember the word , begins with a P , it 's what you might call the stake money — the people he works for in the Agatean Empire will pay up .
19 And like , you always think to yourself like you always think to yourself , yeah , you know I would tell someone and if it 's what you would
20 New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied .
21 It 's what you should do . ’
22 ‘ Unless it 's what you 'd like , for me to meet her . ’
23 It 's what you 'd find in the back of any van out in the country , as you said . ’
24 It 's what you 'd expect .
25 Or perhaps … perhaps it 's what I might have to say that you 're frightened of ?
26 ‘ The designs come from the same drawing pads as the haute couture I create — it 's what I would call ‘ my handwriting ’ , ’ he explains , ‘ but with clever fabric buying , we are keeping the prices down .
27 It 's what I would call an ecological holocaust , ’ said the leader of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II .
28 ‘ That 's not an unusual reaction ; in fact it 's what I would expect .
29 It 's the logical thing to do , now ; it 's what I ought to do .
30 Violence is what I know ; it 's what I can do .
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