Example sentences of "[vb base] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In brief , he has to step back two generations and undergo what one may call a painful cultural circumcision ( God 's Lively People , Fontana , 1971 ) . |
| 2 | They suggest what I shall argue : that integrity rather than some superstition of elegance is the life of law as we know it . |
| 3 | And I realise what I can do . ’ |
| 4 | You grab what you can get and then you desert me . ’ |
| 5 | I sense what I will see before I see it . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 7 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 8 | For each of the following sets of data , based on non-RP accents , say what you can conclude about the phonology of that accent . |
| 9 | FORGET WHAT they might think in Paris and Milan : China 's fashion commissars have decreed what is and is not stylish . |
| 10 | BarclayPlus is a new style of savings account which you can open with as little as £1 . |
| 11 | Consider the sentence ’ this is a new savings account which you can open with one pound ’ written as input to a handwriting recogniser . |
| 12 | He looked round for a stick or prop which he could use to dislodge Yussuf . |
| 13 | If you have a look at the four versions of the videos , I hope what you 'll do is have in front of you er the advocacy criteria guide , which we 'll speak a bit more about in a moment , and actually look and see well , how is it that these people meet , those things , they do n't necessarily but how , how are they persuasive advocates ? |
| 14 | Just to deny her that role or restrict what she can offer the family to eat can be strongly resisted by her as she can lose her identity . |
| 15 | You , you imagine what she 'll do . |
| 16 | ‘ Imagine what it would mean to Britain if you had a player in Manchester and a player in Liverpool who won Wimbledon and the US Open , ’ he said , boggling the mind . |
| 17 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 18 | ‘ Imagine what it 'd do to him . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 20 | A good rule is to look at the shape and size of the flower before you press it , and then imagine what it will look like once it is flat . |
| 21 | If you show what you can do with less , you er , |
| 22 | Challenge puts you in charge of your own sports team which you must train to compete with other teams . |
| 23 | This is actually one of the fas , most fascinating programmes that comes on cos you get all these just look what we can do here , you know , and all American adverts . |
| 24 | Dad look what I can do |
| 25 | And you do n't need any special clothing : ‘ Just wear what you would wear to work , ’ says Chris . |
| 26 | ( This presupposes the British system , where seniority and higher salary depend upon promotion to such leadership positions ; in some schools in the USA , on the contrary , the system of rewards is such that there is less incentive to a fine teacher to seek , or , accept what we would call " promotion " . ) |
| 27 | As socialists we would demand decent and secure housing for everyone at a reasonable cost , but the difficulty arises when we consider what we can demand specifically as women without simply constructing an alternative women 's culture or further reinforcing women 's place in the home . |
| 28 | So today please consider what you would like to achieve most . |
| 29 | Consider what you can do to avoid this in the future . |
| 30 | Consider what you could eat more of , as well as what you should cut down on . |