Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jostling , raspberrying and treading on each other 's toes , they crowded round their officer to hear what he had to say . |
| 32 | When he returned the people gathered round him to hear what he had to say . |
| 33 | She almost turned to hear what he had to say then , almost . |
| 34 | Hoping he had decided to make a clean sweep and tell Marc everything , Sarella waited to hear what he had to say . |
| 35 | She did n't want to hear what he had to say , did n't want to test a resistance that was already weakened . |
| 36 | Erm because he would like to make a comment on the exceptions policy , he has n't been invited to participate tomorrow , er I have exercised some latitude and said yes I will be happy to hear what he has to say , erm there is a prescribed time limit of which he is aware . |
| 37 | erm , well I think probably better , better for everybody to , to hear what he has to say |
| 38 | If it will be useful for Dr Watson to hear what I have to say , please let him stay and listen . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I think you want to hear what I have to say , ’ he told her . |
| 40 | would you like , would you like to hear what I have to say on that one Mr er do you want ? |
| 41 | Everybody wants to hear you because they are your friends , or because they are friends of the happy couple and want to hear what you have to say about them . |
| 42 | erm , erm it might not be erm particularly helpful , but having thought about it again I , I quite like you , in , at least in broad outline er to hear what you have to say on the aspect orusese gnitteg ton er'uoy dias |
| 43 | Thank you very much for leading us tonight , and all here will be interested to hear what you have to say . |
| 44 | Mr Loveitt wants to hear what you have to tell about being aboard the Princess . ’ |
| 45 | Your feet are probably the parts of your anatomy that will suffer most after a marathon — so we were particularly keen to hear what she had to say . |
| 46 | When your mother , good woman that she is , came to see me yesterday I was not shocked to hear what she had to say . |
| 47 | However , he seemed impatient to hear what she had to say . |
| 48 | I bit back my questions as Mandeville began to list what he wished to see the following morning : Arthur 's tomb ; the manuscript in which Hopkins had found the riddle ; and any other matter the reverend Abbot and Brother Eadred thought might assist us in our search . |
| 49 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 50 | Can a person be counted on to do what they agree to do ? |
| 51 | Right at the beginning someone said they were enjoying life at the moment because they were able to do what they wanted to do in Scotland . |
| 52 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 53 | There are days when some of our residents are quite determined that you are going to enable them to do what they want to do , even though what they want to do is completely ridiculous , like going out in the rain without a coat on . |
| 54 | Men are taught from their earliest days to value autonomy , the right to do what they want to do , when they want to do it . |
| 55 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
| 56 | And if he willingly takes on his share of household and parental duties , he may still have to contend with the scorn expressed by some old-fashioned ‘ macho ’ types who would not dream of being seen to do what they continue to think of as ‘ women 's work ’ . |
| 57 | Since I , without the benefit of tax relief , am paying as much as I am for the Monarchy , I would like them to do what they have to do in silence . |
| 58 | Individual managers have a special responsibility to ensure that staff in looking forward to future alternative arrangements do not neglect to do what they have to do , now and in the near future , prudently and safely . |
| 59 | I always wanted to find a woman who liked to do what I liked to do — but I could never find one who wanted to drink and chase women . |
| 60 | ‘ I was n't walking around saying , ‘ Oh I do n't have enough money to do what I want to do ‘ cause I do n't have commercial support for my work . ’ |