Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what I ca n't explain why , is that he starts with thirty two , now whether he sort of gets muddled up with the sort of the system of something I do n't know , but for some reason best known to himself , he starts with thirty two , and the continuum goes up to a hundred and sixty . |
| 2 | But I 've got the sense to know what I ca n't do . |
| 3 | What I ca n't do , however , is close off the script until I know the facts . |
| 4 | She explained : ‘ I 'm the boss and I delegate what I ca n't do . |
| 5 | Erm and then I thought , now , what I ca n't do is I I ca n't do what we did last year a and really put a photograph and a des and a description of it . |
| 6 | But what I ca n't do is to look back and saying you 've been , you are like this now but |
| 7 | But you can do what I ca n't do , I can do what you ca n't do . |
| 8 | I tell you what I ca n't do , I ca n't find , I ca n't find Charles ' birthday on me calendar |
| 9 | I tell you what I ca n't do is carve |
| 10 | ‘ Ah , that 's what I ca n't stand , the suffering , ’ said Shirley , jumping to her feet , her fifteen-year-old voice reasserting , boldly , frailly , the tones of elsewhere , of normality and new Birds Eye peas and modern kitchenettes , of television and hands fumbling inside brassières : ‘ I ca n't stand the suffering , I wo n't suffer , I 've had enough of suffering . ’ |
| 11 | I tell you what I ca n't stand sme er smoke in a bedroom . |
| 12 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
| 13 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
| 14 | What I ca n't understand is how this all went on under my nose . ’ |
| 15 | This is what I ca n't understand . |
| 16 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ she said at last , coming to a stop again behind David 's chair , ‘ is why he married me at all and why he … . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 18 | What what what I ca n't understand , I can be alright , at the day , and as |
| 19 | ‘ I thought so , but what I ca n't understand is why you 're letting Dana get away with it . |
| 20 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | Erm , you know , this is what I ca n't understand , we have n't heard this . |
| 22 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ Richards said , ‘ is why we have to wait . |
| 23 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is this . ’ |
| 24 | What I ca n't understand , though , is why the British should want to get involved . ’ |
| 25 | But what I ca n't understand is why you needed to know what star sign I am , or the characteristics that go with it . |
| 26 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why you were so keen for me to stay here , in the circumstances … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 28 | What I ca n't understand is |
| 29 | But what I ca n't understand , I mean majority of people I mean erm you 've got ta pay the debt in the end whatever . |
| 30 | no , no , no , that 's what I ca n't understand , no I think it 's about a hundred years old you see , probably |