Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you may see exactly what you would see by looking through the glass at any point . |
| 2 | Or he may know exactly what he 's doing — and be doing it for reasons his companions know nothing of , his meaning anything but benevolent . |
| 3 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 4 | I had some dim idea that I should see what sort of creatures these whores were , so that I might find out what I was . |
| 5 | Members opposite must get used to the idea that I shall read out what their Front-Bench spokesmen have said about fund holding . |
| 6 | ‘ This was in some way part of the whole thing , that I 'd blurt out what I 'd done and she 'd ask to see and I 'd have it on hand to show her . ’ |
| 7 | Moore 's view would be , I take it , that someone might know exactly what that state of mind was like , either by personal experience or imagination , without recognizing that it was bad , as he could not without taking in all those properties by sharing which another state of mind would be just like it . |
| 8 | ‘ So I have to fail all my GCSEs so I can find out what you knew all the time ? ’ |
| 9 | And I tell you now in order that you may reckon well what chance is left of keeping any hope of peace alive , after this skirmish . |
| 10 | I would like to take you , stage by stage , through a typical case so that you may know precisely what to expect in both present-life and past-life regression . |
| 11 | These now have an excellent range of pipes and plumbing fittings and are well laid out so that you can see exactly what you need . |
| 12 | Control of your performance is achieved by the combination of attitude and power , and it is essential that you should know just what the attitude and power is — in various configurations — for every performance you might need to set up in the aircraft you normally fly . |
| 13 | We 're offering you a range of different sizes so you can choose exactly what you need . |
| 14 | They all consist of a durable two part coupling system — one side with rows of hooks , the other with a mass of loops , which join together to make a secure fastening — the nylon hook and loop tapes are also sold separately so you can buy exactly what you need . |
| 15 | It 's called time , it gives you a little space at the top so you can fill in what you feel to be your role , and if you can fill below , all the tasks in respective order that you do in a typical day . |
| 16 | Videos are often available of exercise routines so you can see exactly what you should be doing . |
| 17 | The descriptions and explanations leave no questions unanswered , the graphics are extremely well drawn so you can see clearly what the author means when he is talking about planting etc . |
| 18 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 19 | For that matter , a computer catalogue could relate different demands together , so that one could find out what was in the collection in tape-slide format on the emigration of Cornish tin-miners to southern Wisconsin in the nineteenth century , suitable for advanced students in the sixth form ( ages 17–18 ) . |
| 20 | It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required . |
| 21 | However , puberty affects values and beliefs so much that it may not be until the mid-twenties that we can ask realistically what career priorities a person has . |
| 22 | I 'm not convinced that we can establish exactly what we 're after erm the sort of conversation or communication |
| 23 | ‘ Well , first we 've got to get rid of air resistance — so we can see exactly what gravity itself is doing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We need some people to be made to testify under oath so we can find out what went wrong with that investigation , ’ said Mr Laframboise , stressing that , at this point , it does not matter that most of the physical evidence has been destroyed . |
| 25 | In all fairness , she should point out the entries that were suspect , so that they could find out what was amiss . |
| 26 | I can offer an account of what the minimum level to be attained at 16 by 80%-90% of pupils would entail in a few areas of the curriculum … ; in English , pupils would need to demonstrate that they are attentive listeners and confident speakers when dealing with everyday matters of which they have experience , that they can read straightforward written information and pass it on — orally and in written form — without loss of meaning and that they can say clearly what their own views are ; in Mathematics , that they can apply the topics and skills in the foundation list proposed in the Cockcroft Report ; in Science , that they are willing and able to take a practical approach to problems , involving sensible observations and appropriate measurements and can communicate their findings effectively … ; in History , that they possess some historical knowledge and perspective , understand the concepts of cause and consequence , and can compare and extract information from historical evidence and be aware of its limitations ; and in CDT [ craft , design and technology ] , that they can design and make something , using a limited range of materials and calling on a restricted range of concepts and give an account of what they have done and the problems they encountered . |
| 27 | If a manufacturer of a product says ‘ It can do this and that ’ then my expectation is that it will do exactly what the manufacturer says it can do . |
| 28 | She realized that he must know exactly what was running through her mind . |
| 29 | And then they 'd leave and I would do exactly what I wanted . |
| 30 | I 'm reading Sense and Sensibility and I must find out what happens to Marianne . |