Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at our table below to see what you can save when you visit the salon . |
| 2 | ‘ Edward of England will only eat what he can digest ! ’ |
| 3 | If Wullie Robertson was not to her liking he would soon enough know what he could do with his bloody trumpet . |
| 4 | One was about to start work in the engineering department of Rover and was already cute enough to know what you should and should n't say to a journalist , especially when it comes to forthcoming developments of the K-series engine . |
| 5 | If they 're not properly trained it 's not their fault , people can only do what they can do ca n't they ? |
| 6 | This observation merely perpetuates what I would call the Lawrence fallacy and disregards the unilateral meaning of appropriation . |
| 7 | Everyone pushes out the boat to look their best on the Big Day — so imagine what it must be like if money 's no object . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll obviously do what I can to help , ’ she began , sipping her drink . |
| 9 | ‘ John Smith was right to tell the country that a Labour government will only spend what it can afford . |
| 10 | I only know what you would have me be . ’ |
| 11 | I think Con was strong enough and single-minded enough to do what I should have done years ago . |
| 12 | Bright enough to draw what he could from his NME days and survive outside , he 's carved a unique niche for himself . |
| 13 | We only believe what we can see and touch ! ’ |
| 14 | As she gave a brief nod he continued , ‘ The Meadowses have been incredibly kind , and are obviously doing what they can to make us feel welcome . |
| 15 | Since she has pushed the decade for almost her entire career , one can only wonder what she 'll do now that everyone else has followed suit . |
| 16 | Capt Forgrave , 27 , of Wrexham , said yesterday : ‘ I was only doing what anyone would have done in the circumstances . |
| 17 | The Nun 's Priest ends his tale with a direction to the reader/listener , purportedly indicating what they must do : and supporting it with St Paul 's dictum : In the Nun 's Priest 's Tale this is no simple directive , finally defining the purpose of a tale which the narrator has introduced as a " " myrie " " ( " merry " ) exercise , and which is truly comic and lively . |
| 18 | God alone knew what she must look like — a creature from the black lagoon probably — and suddenly , unexpectedly , she began to chuckle . |
| 19 | Only do what you can — please do n't over-exert yourself . |
| 20 | Nothing is done to prevent the snake from eating a frog : each frog merely does what it can to reduce its chances of being the unlucky one . |
| 21 | And so to take what we would describe as a reasonable view on this , we say that if you know from evidence there are a number of concealed households , you should seek to accommodate them . |
| 22 | He could only speculate what they would have been like in colour . |
| 23 | Richard , Richard if you w if you were on the streets of Belfast for example goodness only knows what they would say to you , just because you 're British and they 'd use the pretext that you 're black to really throw horrendous insults at you . |
| 24 | But from what I gathered erm yeah we were gon na carry on , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , cos had we gone back under their conditions , then god only knows what I 'd be earning now . |
| 25 | Athelstan suddenly wondered what she would look like in a bright dress of scarlet taffeta rather than the dark browns , greens and blues she always wore . |
| 26 | She could only imagine what he must be suffering . |
| 27 | If I had n't had my child to take my mind off things , God alone knows what I would have done to you . ’ |
| 28 | It also says major applications will be made available on plug-in cards but , as always , computer buyers should only assess what they can see , not what might turn up who-knows-when . |
| 29 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 30 | Modern research has shown that the innate factors at work seem largely to affect what we might call ego-development . |