Example sentences of "what [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What kinda cadet would you make , pretty boy ? ’ he jeered in a coarse accent . |
| 2 | What kinda religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about ? ’ |
| 3 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 4 | She puts it in , and you ask her all questions about , she tells you it about it , and it has to be , and it only drinks orange squash , cos that 's wh what only Marie only drinks . |
| 5 | I will show you what only God can see . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you what anyway Jim I 'm coming back next week to er give you a few answers coming out of this fact find so |
| 7 | or what information you want on this thing and what generally information is asked of you |
| 8 | What what exactly kind of meals did you have ? |
| 9 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 10 | What exactly SunSelect will do with NT remains to be seen , dependent in some ways on how well NT penetrates the market . |
| 11 | I shook my head and bent back to my work , but every now and again , as I was writing or just thinking , a niggling little side-track thought would distract me , and I 'd find myself remembering Janice 's words , and wondering what exactly Uncle Rory might have hidden within his later work ( if he really had hidden anything ) . |
| 12 | Most elusive factoid : who or what exactly Godzilla mated with to produce Son of Godzilla |
| 13 | None of this does any good ; it just makes Washington wonder what exactly Mr Clinton is in charge of . |
| 14 | When , in desperation , one tried to recall what exactly Labour 's alternative economic strategy was , all one could remember was ‘ training ’ . |
| 15 | you know she told me about it , she says I think I must mention it and I said okay I wo n't do it any more and she said oh please do it , we need you to do it she said especially the letter formation , she says what just try and encourage him to write any old letters , just to make sure that he can form them without copying them |
| 16 | Because erm the , the erm what usually people say is that erm if you use your non-preferred area in the psychological sense , then it 's very hard work because you have n't got the same degree of control as you have in the other |
| 17 | That was what yesterday afternoon and evening had been all about . |
| 18 | Their activity amazed and baffled even the sceptical Bernier : ‘ They tell any person his thoughts , cause the branch of a tree to blossom and to bear fruit within an hour , hatch an egg in their bosom within fifteen minutes , producing what ever bird may be demanded , and make it fly around the room . ’ |
| 19 | So it was just kind of what ever enthusiasm there was washed away with that . |
| 20 | ‘ Neither , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , ‘ do I expect you to contravene the Witches Code , rule number seven , paragraph two , by changing your fellows into any sort of animal for what ever reason . |
| 21 | You have n't really got the answer at all you 've just written it differently and that 's all it means whatever you 're sharing out goes on the top what ever number of people of people it 's being shared out between go underneath . |
| 22 | Much as Mandy 's well-intentioned little white lies annoyed her , Charity felt intensely loyal to her irrepressible cousin , and she was n't going to tell him that Mandy had an unfortunate trait of bending the truth into what ever pigeon holes suited her . |
| 23 | What Lyle , Faldo twice and Woosnam did in successive years has broken what ever invincibility the home players thought they had . |
| 24 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 25 | Nationally , what both education and business produce is valued and thought to be of vital importance . |
| 26 | The Kingman Committee had to pay considerable attention to what both teachers and pupils need to know . |
| 27 | That is just what both BSN and LVMH were up to . |
| 28 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 29 | What both Mr Roberts and Mr Smith were actually trying to do was get Labour off the ‘ promotion ’ hook . |
| 30 | He gradually induced in the group a feeling of hopelessness , which must have resembled what both Mr E and Dave were feeling in the classroom . |