Example sentences of "[coord] what it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I know what this might mean , or what it might be made to mean . |
| 2 | Until fairly recently I do n't think people have understood the design process or what it can do for the success of their companies . |
| 3 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 4 | They ran back to the house and Endill waited at the front door while his mother went to see who or what it was . |
| 5 | At first he thought it might be the Headmaster but even if he ran to check , he never arrived in time to find out who , or what it was . |
| 6 | An author may expect his or her reader to have at least a general idea of when the Vikings lived , or what it feels like to be bullied , or to be able to cope with simple scientific concepts , or to know the general geography of the USA . |
| 7 | Can it market itself more effectively to its potential customers , many of whom are unclear about what factoring is or what it can do for their company ? |
| 8 | The FO said : ‘ We 're not sure how long the review will take or what it all means . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We know what this means , or what it could mean . |
| 10 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 11 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 12 | It does not know quite where it belongs , or what it stands for . |
| 13 | If Quine and Kuhn are right , there is no longer a universal test of what is probable or what it is rational to believe on the basis of experience . |
| 14 | To speak of my way of being , or what it is like to be me , seems to be to speak of what distinguishes my conscious life from the conscious lives of others . |
| 15 | They 'll just think it 's a pair of boots er have n't got a clue what , what unison is or what it 's gon they know they 're gon na try and amalgamate the unions to strengthen that 's what I never managed to get through . |
| 16 | What nervousness means or what it can mean . |
| 17 | They may know nothing about media selection , or how to produce a TV commercial , or what it costs to buy a 20 cm × 5 cols space in the Finchley Advertiser . |
| 18 | is what it is like or what it is like in words . |
| 19 | Or or what it is , |
| 20 | At first they did not identify the noise , or what it signified . |
| 21 | He knew as he could come to me er he used to bring me lock keys of all sorts and er he could get the castings or the patterns or what it is like that and he knows I could fashion them to fit the lock and all that sort of thin and we were very |
| 22 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 23 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 24 | If he has ‘ style ’ he does n't know where it came from or what it is . |
| 25 | The trouble was , for the life of him , he could not imagine where or what it might be . |
| 26 | The catapult was avenged , the buck — or what it meant , its spirit maybe — soiled and degraded , taught a hard lesson , and I felt good . |
| 27 | It does not indicate what the velocity will be at the same point at another instant or what it will be at any other geometrically similar point ( i.e. a point at the same distance from the axis ) . |
| 28 | The supply of money is assumed to be determined by government : what the government chooses it to be , or what it allows it to be by its choice of the level and method of financing the PSBR . |
| 29 | Or what it is to speak so emphatically that even the phlegmatic Mrs Padmore feels obliged to underline it . |
| 30 | I do n't know whether he was expecting the water to burst or what it was . |