Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [noun sg] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | It includes at present what we call the School of Education . |
| 2 | Rapidly , she outlined her plan , stressing the ease of it all and the perfect opportunity it represented to right what she must surely agree was a manifest wrong . |
| 3 | I cried over that old letter , that fragment of academe , because it said in part what I had wanted , then wanted and still want to say to you and only to you , and because it expressed in part some of the physical ache and fear and disappointment I had felt , then felt and still ( in an increased measure ) feel . |
| 4 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 5 | It set in motion what we call a debris flow , a mixture of 50-ton boulders , rocks , sand and gravel bound together in a kind of slurry , which came rolling down the side canyon and dammed the river . |