Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [verb] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Jackson got a bit nearer what I thought we were asking for with his ‘ Crazy For You ’ from Madonna in support of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 2 | There is sufficient money in balances to pay our share of that , if we need to do so , and I think making scare stories about it does n't do anything towards what I hope we all want , which is an efficient , effective police force in this county , protecting us erm from crime , and helping to prevent as much crime as possible . |
| 3 | The map that 's in the back of what they gave us looks as though it might blown up . |
| 4 | We hope our members and supporters are proud of what they helped us achieve and will continue to support us and introduce their friends to CPRW 's vital work . |
| 5 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 6 | Obviously , you get this book for a fraction of what it costs us to make . |
| 7 | Erm as Eddie 's sent this thing here , this minus seventy pound nett , that is the nett difference that is the cost erm of what it cost us to actually hire the nets less the one pound fifty er per person , er per session that was paid , so that is the nett difference because we come there . |
| 8 | ‘ We knew that despite what they promised we would n't get any real control , ’ comments Gilbert Hernandez . |
| 9 | How do we compare what we 're doing on our short-term with what we said we would do on the long-term . |
| 10 | In Emendatio Vitae he deals with prayer , meditation and reading in that order , but in the actual chapter on contemplation he spells out a sequence which agrees with what he tells us of his own experience and which does not contradict his account in The Form . |
| 11 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 12 | These have been judged from what you tell us in the holiday questionnaire and we have also used our own expertise . |
| 13 | In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life . |
| 14 | From what I hear we 'll be seeing a lot of each other . ’ |
| 15 | He added : ‘ We 're in the midst of a critical floods situation but from what I hear we 're getting the better of it . |
| 16 | In this way we can build on what we believe we do well — providing excellent customer service and quality beer brands . |
| 17 | The glamour adverts are about what they think we want to be , then there are the other kind that are supposedly about reality — you know , the ones where they always have Northern accents . |
| 18 | We have been able to explore , through what they told us , the many different ways in which they respond to this challenge . |
| 19 | Well , erm , I I give a very small example of that , er , we 're very privileged er , in having four distinguished leaders of the voluntary sector , who meet with us every four months , and they , er , we only meet for two two and a half hours , and we talk through what we think we 're trying to do , as a company . |
| 20 | Each of these versions has its own authenticity ; and editorial decisions are interesting in their own right ( and merit investigation ) for what they tell us about the times when they were made ( for example , the Tutuola revisions tell us about British attitudes during the 1960s to the English of non-native speakers ) . |
| 21 | ‘ When we say a person is responsible for what he does we mean not just that he was the agent … we also say that the act reflects ( back ) on the agent , ’ writes David Wood ( 1973 , p. 191 ) . |
| 22 | We can only go by what they , overall costing effective solution , we can only go by what they tell us , I mean we we just have to believe what they tell us , do n't we ? |
| 23 | When we are going on a journey to a strange country , our state of mind and the nature of our preparations are determined by what we think we shall find there and , in particular , by whether we have friends and relations living there . |