Example sentences of "and [prep] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women . |
| 2 | Now , there are quite a number of reasons for this and the good news , I think , that I bought good news again this morning is that presentations both about budgets er , and about what we do wi with the small churches is , er , could be some of our salvation . |
| 3 | Since the Bill relates to that breakout , I take the opportunity to tell the Home Secretary once more that sooner or later he will have to be frank with the House and the country about what occurred at Brixton and about what he knew . |
| 4 | If you shared this assault , you might lose control of your Mamelukes ’ conduct , and for what they did , the King would have an excuse to retaliate . |
| 5 | Aileen is proud of her family for their support and for what they have achieved . |
| 6 | He does not , however , retract his proposal that the precepts of the imagist manifesto are still the best rules of thumb for ‘ the neophyte ’ , the beginner in his ‘ prentice-work ; and for what it is worth my own experience in the workshop certainly bears that out . |
| 7 | But nonetheless — and for what it 's worth — this obsession with number seems to me sad , reductive and weird , and I wonder where it comes from ? |
| 8 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 9 | Long into the night he sobbed , weeping for what he had lost , and for what he had become . |
| 10 | And for what you would do , if I let you live . |
| 11 | They walked on , and after what they reckoned to be another mile they paused again and looked back at Dynmouth . |
| 12 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
| 13 | We checked all but our oilies , hand baggage and briefcases into the airport lock-ups , and after what he had said about the weather , I was glad to see , when we got to the car desk , that he had laid on a four-wheel-drive land-cruiser . |
| 14 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 15 | Expressive behaviour , according to Tormey ( and not to be confused with the way Harré is using the term ) points in two directions simultaneously : towards some state of emotional arousal in the person ( say , anger or wonder or pleasure ) ; and towards what he calls an intentional object , something outside the person to which the state of arousal is prepositionally related . |
| 16 | He turned and looked back into the room and towards what she dimly made out to be a number of people . |
| 17 | And despite what you seem to think , I do n't see this as a game either . |
| 18 | Rain said : ‘ Despite Barbara Coleman 's chattering and despite what I 've just been told , you 're all safe because there 's no proof about the provenance of the paintings . ’ |
| 19 | And despite what he 'd said , less a token of affection than a means of throwing her off balance . |
| 20 | It all seemed too important for that : a warning of what was inside us all as human beings and of what we must avoid at all costs . |
| 21 | Alan was well aware of his own gifts and of what they might lead him to become , but I am not sure he entirely welcomed his role as a leader of lesser men . |
| 22 | Both speakers will give an account of their work and of what they would like from a supervisor . |
| 23 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 24 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 25 | If you can understand Berlin then perhaps it is also possible to make some sense of what Europe may now become and of what it means to be a European . |
| 26 | And of what it means to be born into ‘ the struggle ’ : to be expected , without question , to be part of it . |
| 27 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 28 | Summative , in providing overall evidence of the achievements of a pupil and of what he or she knows , understands and can do ; |
| 29 | There is indeed plenty in print about them , but it is economic , argumentative stuff , mostly condemnatory and lacking in any understanding of what this old world meant to the peasant , and of what he lost by its passing . |
| 30 | It was his conception , his baby , and for it he would tolerate most things , including his suspicion of Trotskyism — whether of the IMG or IS variety — and of what he may have seen as Rowbotham 's ‘ hippy sentimentality ’ . |