Example sentences of "what [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Diaghilev 's death composers seemed reluctant to create what Edwin Evans said they called ‘ accompaniments to dance ’ , because they ‘ preferred to create the new for the sake of being new ’ . |
| 2 | But , until recently , senior professional persons have not been directly challenged over what Bernard Shaw called their conspiracies against the laity . |
| 3 | I want to walk through what Jim Lancaster told us . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's what Auntie Lou calls it , but then she 's a bit silly . ’ |
| 5 | What Thorkel Fóstri wished he knew was whether Thorfinn admired the new Duke , or whether he felt as he , Thorkel Fóstri , had once felt and still sometimes did , looking on a younger , able , ambitious man with all his future before him . |
| 6 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , your tummy button is what Mother Francis calls it . ’ |
| 8 | Now , my girl , you 'll do exactly what Mother Benedicta tells you to do , or any other of the Sisters , come to that . |
| 9 | But I was staying inside , learning about what the world was really like , or , rather , what Pansy Fanshawe thought it was like . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's not what Yeo Davis call themselves — I think they use some phrase like ‘ government and parliamentary relations ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Remember to do what Mr Jaggers tells you . |
| 12 | Well , I daresay you will , from what Mr Vansitart tells me . |
| 13 | An angry scene took place in the Cabinet Room at Number 10 , and Mrs Thatcher adopted what Mr Major calls her ‘ blustering and bullying tactics ’ . |
| 14 | She married him just after our dad was killed down the pit — dancing on our father 's grave , was what Mr Evans called it . |
| 15 | ‘ Look what Mr Dobson gave me ! ’ were the first words from the little girl as Lisa had hurried through her next-door neighbour Josey 's front door . |
| 16 | This is what Talker Parsons interpreted it to be in building Freud into his sociological system as a theory of socialization . |
| 17 | What 's in it for the businesses is this : at the moment they can see Eastern Europe as an emerging market , but it 's very difficult to get in there because the hard cash and the skills that they need do n't exist in those countries , but they want to do something , they want to demonstrate their interest , they want to make contact , and what Enterprise Europe gives them is the opportunity to make a good business contact amongst one the young generation of er of business leaders in those countries er in order , and keep those contacts in order that when they do have an opportunity to go into those markets they 've got some young people there to start off with . |
| 18 | ‘ Probably just as well , from what Mrs McDougall told us , ’ said Megan . |
| 19 | Anyone of a moderately sensitive disposition , who is not in the thrall of what Aldous Huxley termed their ‘ idiot monologue ’ of petty rigmarole , but who is sufficiently inwardly tranquil and open to the influence of the landscape , can not fail to be struck by the uncanny quality which the chalk ‘ breathes out ’ at different times of day under particular atmospheric conditions . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you know what Bill Waddy calls him , Bob ? |
| 21 | But that is just what Corinne Hollingworth believes she has done with Eldorado . |
| 22 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 23 | None the less , he proved to be a left-hand bat of the highest possible calibre , and a character much respected as well as affectionately regarded for what John Arlott called his ‘ pin-toed toddle ’ . |
| 24 | Every living organism is thus constrained as a result of selection to live in what John Bowlby terms its ‘ environment of evolutionary adaptedness ’ , using stable strategies of exploitation which are the best available to it . |
| 25 | I do n't know what time Anne said she was coming . |