Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not , after all , ’ she said , looking around her domain with a distinct smile , ‘ running a house of ill repute , which is what I fear the present title of Madame seems to suggest , along with bead curtains , red velvet plush love seats , champagne buckets and other such fittings and accoutrements which are not our style at all these days . |
| 2 | And what I , from what I gather the bigger the household that people were in the more they enjoyed it cos the jobs were shared out more . |
| 3 | of what I heard the previous week . |
| 4 | It 's what I made the other week . |
| 5 | What I asked the right hon. Gentleman — and what he has still not answered — is , would the Government veto a treaty with the word ’ federal ’ in it ? |
| 6 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 7 | And I meant what I said the other night . |
| 8 | maybe she 's got a bug or something , that 's what I had a few weeks ago remember , mm , mm , oh and then to cap it all |
| 9 | oh that 's what I meant the Golden Fleece |
| 10 | I could find genuine analogies between the [ Peruvian ] Indian and what I imagined the Russian muzhik to be ’ ( Ravines : 1951 , p. 13 ) . |
| 11 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 12 | Pakeezah thanked her : ‘ Now that 's what I call a nice cup of tea , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Frithrah , you 're what I call a Chief Rabbit ! " |
| 14 | " I tell you , he 's what I call a Chief Rabbit . |
| 15 | Yeah , yeah it 's got a lot of er it 's a holey , what I call a holey one you know |
| 16 | Yes they can erm , distinguish between what I call a do-it-yourself alarms and th the recognized companies . |
| 17 | Can I just quickly ask whether there 's any cooperation with the youth service in taking these children out on , what I call a challenging activity like rock climbing , like at weekend residential , because you know , it , it seems cooperation there would be very beneficial I 'm sure , in certain types of children who need the physical as well ? |
| 18 | Well we always used to have what I call a traditional Sunday dinner |
| 19 | Losing Betty Boo and getting The Sultans Of Ping FC is not what I call a good deal . |
| 20 | Now that 's what I call a good funeral |
| 21 | And that 's what I call a real bargain : something that 's an improvement and saves you money . |
| 22 | ‘ Now that 's what I call a real bird's-eye view ! ’ she exclaimed as she landed , beaming with delight . |
| 23 | Well fortunately , for me she was n't what I call a big lady |
| 24 | And er , he was a good clean butcher , what I call a clean butcher , you know . |
| 25 | So this is what I call a pessimistic er , view of human nature , this Hobbesian one . |
| 26 | ‘ Black people in America and internationally within the last 500 years have been put under what I call a policed state , ’ comments Singleton . |
| 27 | It is also important to create what I call a maternal genealogy to add to the paternal lineage which the current histories of art canonise — the succession of geniuses passing on the Olympic torch down the ages , man to man . |
| 28 | I also have some other tablets , smaller ones , which I have to take if I get a pain across the chest and it persists … what I call a chuntering thing . |
| 29 | Always joking about rats : that 's what I call a weird sense of humour . |
| 30 | As a tutor I teach my students to steer well clear of what I call the 4 oz syndrome , i.e. the system we were all taught years ago . |