Example sentences of "what [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was time to get up from what everyone else regarded as the mire and do all the conventional things again . |
| 2 | As she did n't connect it with what everyone else calls masturbation . |
| 3 | What everyone else wanted to see was how gold medal standard stacked up against professional match racers . |
| 4 | It would be perfectly reasonable to think of pitch as ranging instead from ‘ light ’ to ‘ heavy ’ , for example , or from ‘ left ’ to ‘ right ’ , and people who have difficulty in ‘ hearing ’ intonation patterns are generally only having difficulty in relating what they hear ( which is the same as what everyone else hears ) to this ‘ pseudo-spatial ’ representation . |
| 5 | It is much easier just to come along one night and do what everyone else does . |
| 6 | Theyre all too busy to see what everyone else does . |
| 7 | There is also the chance for some self-indulgence — taking breakfast in bed , luxuriating in a long bath , watching what we want on TV rather than what everyone else wants , and so on . |
| 8 | As slaves were to be found in all the American colonies and were an important , though perhaps not a vital , part of the economy of Virginia , Maryland , and the Carolinas , the Georgians were asking only that they should be allowed to do what everyone else did . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's what everyone always wanted , a proper little girl , ’ says David . |
| 10 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 11 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 12 | When pressed as to why he thought this was , he got on to what I later found was a cause he would die for . |
| 13 | From what I later found out , it was apparent that if we were not sent home it may have become increasingly difficult to transport those pupils who travelled on coaches home through the floods which had been gradually rising , mainly due to the River Deben bursting its banks and so flooding the nearby villages . |
| 14 | Another thing children need to do in evaluating information is to ask themselves " How does this information fit with what I already know ? " |
| 15 | From what I already know , will I enjoy studying the subject for one , two or possibly more years ? |
| 16 | Does what he or she says support/supplement/contradict what I already know or believe ? |
| 17 | ‘ My dear Rose , ’ Theda said with a smile , ‘ you have so espoused Benedict 's cause that you imagine it is enough to tell me all his unfortunate history to make me realise what I already know . |
| 18 | Yeah that 's what I already said . |
| 19 | Look what I already did to your car . ’ |
| 20 | Mrs Mack said she could not accept the offer : ‘ £6m would not buy what I already have , which I want to keep . |
| 21 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 22 | My decision has been not to breed from her , but I 'm still sending letters to colleagues who specialise in genetics and orthopaedics , hoping that they might be able to shed some light on the significance of what I unexpectedly found . |
| 23 | With the ‘ demographic shift ’ of the 1990 's we must take every opportunity to encourage more girls and young women to follow what I firmly believe to be a most rewarding of careers . |
| 24 | That is exactly what I firmly believe , and I have some experience of spiders and their webs . |
| 25 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 26 | As I thought about it , the notion took its own shape , blossoming , as it were , and escalating into what I finally conceived as my cousin 's nemesis . |
| 27 | ‘ I know you 're all going to take the piss out of me if I tell you what I honestly thought . ’ |
| 28 | That 's what I normally use . |
| 29 | Yeah well we what I normally think you see is when we 've got ninety degrees there |
| 30 | What I normally do is vandalism , poaching , driving without insurance , petty opportunist larceny . |