Example sentences of "what [vb -s] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What influences you to buy clothes ? |
| 2 | ‘ And if you 're stuck in the wings feeding lines to some senile old fool who ca n't remember them … ’ he laughed harshly , ‘ … then it 's really up to you what lines you feed . ’ |
| 3 | The penalty is that you have to decide what sizes you want and prepare them in advance , a process that can take quite a time and uses up a considerable amount of disk space . |
| 4 | And what books you 've got ! |
| 5 | If he can not do this quickly — either because you have not told him what questions you have answered , or because you have indicated them in an order that is not that in which you have attempted them — he is likely to be mildly annoyed . |
| 6 | The more care you have taken in your application , gathering background information , knowing what questions you want to ask , preparing yourself to counter any awkward questions , ensuring that you are suitably dressed and that you arrive unflustered in good time for your appointment , the less reason you will have to be nervous and the more confident you will feel . |
| 7 | This is what allows you to adjust the colours and mix and match them for your new palette . |
| 8 | But there is a whole science devoted to the study of behavioural control , and if you can learn something about your own psychology , what motivates you to change , the whole process of becoming healthier , of achieving a new , slim shape , will be very much easier . |
| 9 | Right , that 's what happens you see . |
| 10 | Because what happens you see in these societies and Australian Aborigines are with no exceptions is that if you want a wife if you 're a young man and you want a wife you first of all got ta get initiated . |
| 11 | I 'm not quite sure what happens you see . |
| 12 | what , you see , what , what happens you see , I mean all my re all the transactions here are done through banker 's orders you see and the banker 's orders they , they wo n't know who , who ever it is going to be responsible you know , but you 've got to put down the wife and , and yourself , see |
| 13 | when I remember what says you go yeah right . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you mind telling me what wages you paid him ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You just do n't realise what risks you run . |
| 16 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 17 | What leads you to believe this ? ’ |
| 18 | who they just need to know on a daily basis what deals you 've got . |
| 19 | ‘ What ages you 've been ! ’ said Susan , when Breeze rushed upstairs . |
| 20 | Her thinking is already personalised : ‘ I wonder what keeps you going … etc . ’ |
| 21 | Erm because that 's what gets you to accept it and stop thinking this is a load of rubbish , this is a con he 's just making this up . |
| 22 | If you 've not done that exercise yet , it 's quite a useful one to find out what figures you come up with . |
| 23 | What affects us affects you ; what harms you harms us all , for you are our leader , father of our clan . |
| 24 | State what pleases you to begin with — if you state the negative first , the other party may never hear the positive as they start to construct defences to your attack . |
| 25 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 26 | If you decide ( as you might ) that part of the answer lies in changing the system within which the staff are working , then you should outline what changes you propose to make and how you would introduce them to staff , both present and future . |
| 27 | You compare your performance with other companies ' to identify where and how far you need to catch up , and what practices you need to adopt in order to do so . |
| 28 | Find out what gives you pain relief — hot baths and heated pads or cold packs ( a bag of peas from the freezer will do nicely ) . |
| 29 | I do n't care what pictures you have . |
| 30 | All the rakes in the county will be converted when they know what reforms you have worked on our old friend . |