Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 2 | We began by studying the Bible and trying to relate what it said to our daily lives and the problems of the community . |
| 3 | We were old enough to know what we wanted at last . |
| 4 | Then there were the nice people who were n't interesting , and you did n't want to know what they thought of anything . |
| 5 | I want to know what they meant by sending a son of mine to — ’ |
| 6 | But he argues that the benefits were ‘ too small and too short-term for us to know what they meant in the long-term ’ . |
| 7 | Mum went straight up to Mrs Phipps and demanded to know what she meant by saying Granny had had her chips . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm at your entire service , ma'am , ’ he said , eager now to know what she had in mind . |
| 9 | He wanted to know what she thought about everything , because as he told her he found everything she had to say so interesting . |
| 10 | It would be interesting to know what she did with all the money he left her . ’ |
| 11 | I was hard put to know what I thought about our guests — I mean since , as well as then . |
| 12 | ‘ Then he wanted to know what I thought of young Hilary , ’ said Tom . |
| 13 | She had n't wept or clung to him , demanded to know what he felt about her , uttered those naive and sweetly foolish declarations of undying love expected of a young girl whose virginity had just been taken . |
| 14 | I 'd like to know who attended the meeting at which the attendance level was set and I 'd like to know what he said on Liverpool 's behalf . |
| 15 | One was to see her own column — for so J.D. called it — in print , another was to know whether or not Dr Neil had read it , and still another was to know what he thought of it — and none of these desires seemed likely to be satisfied . |
| 16 | She wanted to know what he did with his evenings and was told of occasional visits to the West End now everything in the world of entertainment had opened up once more , but the mess or the local pubs were the usual haunts of his brother officers and himself . |
| 17 | Though their heads were held down forcibly , the two men looked up at Rosten , anxious to know what he intended for them . |
| 18 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 19 | This is why and one of the the real problems with this is it 's not that I 'm criticising , it 's just that if in fact you 've got somebody who was appointed as a treasurer , you can in fact get more information out of it , instead of having to guess what we got from where and how it came in . |
| 20 | Well , we 'll leave you to guess what it looked like . |
| 21 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 22 | Most of the children … had a verbal knowledge of how to select a book and how to find what they wanted in the right book once they had located it . |
| 23 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 24 | Thus Attoh Ahuma ( who was also known as a clergyman , the Revd S.R.B. Solomon ) joined with another local churchman , the Revd Eggijir Assam , to launch the Gold Coast Aborigine , in which they promised to redress what they saw as the colonial imbalance in the education of local Africans : |
| 25 | Through their objectivity , he argued , search consultants were able to provide what he saw as conceptual help in defining a business need and translating it into the sort of people who could fulfil it ; actually searching for people was perhaps less important . |
| 26 | She tried unsuccessfully to hide what she described as ‘ preposterous fear ’ , and I understood that her fear had no focus and no logic , but was becoming a state of mind . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , he viewed Coenwulf as a tyrant , who had compounded his deficiencies by putting away his wife and taking another ( as Eardwulf had done in Northumbria ) , and urged the Mercian patrician to advise the Mercian people to observe what he referred to as the good and chaste customs of Offa . |
| 28 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
| 29 | Yet because a prince could now justify his coercive authority by reference to his peace-keeping function , those who failed to obtain what they saw as justice at his court , and who now stood to suffer punishment if they disturbed the peace to vindicate their rights , grew embittered . |
| 30 | The main thrust of Friedman 's paper was to displace what he regarded as an ill-informed and misguided optimism among post-war Keynesians concerning the ability of governments to intervene in the economy to achieve particular policy objectives . |