Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contracting party can stipulate for what consideration he chooses . |
| 2 | Controversy in the medical profession still rages about the benefits of vitamins and dietary supplements and manufacturers are closely restricted in any claims they can make about what their various products can do . |
| 3 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 4 | But however much he 's awarded , Peter says it 'll never compensate for what he 's lost . |
| 5 | But Bill says no amount of money can truly compensate for what he describes as three years of pain . |
| 6 | Erm there 's the P W P five year thing which , which we 've got to erm cover for which we 've covered as two F T E for the six months and then we 'll need to review that after that . |
| 7 | If , however , a vector x does exist for which Ax = 0 , this clearly means that any column of A can be expressed as a linear sum of the remaining columns ; by the rules for evaluation of determinants this requires unc to be zero . |
| 8 | Dr Rolleston was retiring quietly to let a younger man prepare for what we were beginning to think was inevitable . |
| 9 | I ca n't answer for what happens to the horses there . ’ |
| 10 | Economists can then theorise about what happens when we remove those assumptions one by one . |
| 11 | I 'll think about what you 've just said . ’ |
| 12 | It gave me a few minutes to stop and think about what the hell I was doing . |
| 13 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
| 14 | He would think about what his mother always used to call ‘ nice things ’ . |
| 15 | All the Brownies were invited to go home and think about what the Pack could do for the fete and bring their ideas and suggestions along to the next Pack Meeting . |
| 16 | She could n't bear to remember the dreadful things she had said that day , any more than she could think about what was happening to Maggie now . |
| 17 | Before you get to see the demo , you have to flick through some text pages containing interesting pieces about the ‘ incident ’ , making you think about what happened . |
| 18 | He did a very good job , but it made me think about what would be right for me when I died . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think about what the first tackle is going to be like , unless of course it comes from Stuart Pearce ! |
| 20 | Manager Howard Wilkinson admitted : ‘ You dare n't think about what it means — if you do that you end up thinking about what you might lose . |
| 21 | As for ‘ clinging to the Union Jack ’ , maybe Morrissey is trying to reclaim the flag from the right , maybe he 's trying to make us think about what we have ‘ in common with the frightening skinheads ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ You said we must think about what they know from bugging us while we were talking after they 'd gone . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll think about what you said , Marge . |
| 24 | In a way a baby seemed less likely than before Claudia was pregnant : perhaps we did n't dare think about what was about to happen . |
| 25 | It makes you think about what you are listening to and it gives you an active role in the lecture process . |
| 26 | I 'll think about what you 're asking for . |
| 27 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 28 | They gave me a cheque for some stuff , but Keith just wanted to spend it and did n't really think about what he was buying . |
| 29 | I do think about what you say . |
| 30 | He says that the children are responding to a need in themselves , and believes that many adults do n't make the time to slow down and think about what they really need . |