Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That always mends what nothing breaks . |
| 2 | The problem had arisen because the first plan used had a river running through the property — what no-one had realised was that the course of the river had changed , leaving a piece of land unconveyed . |
| 3 | ‘ What no-one condones is raking the head and we just still ca n't accept what happened to Victor Ubogu on the B tour last year when his ear was almost sliced away from his head . ’ |
| 4 | What no-one seems ready to notice is that , by and large , self-regulation is working . |
| 5 | I 've always wondered why , just like I 've always wondered how we can always understand what everyone says , no matter what language they 're speaking . |
| 6 | That 's what everyone says , oh I used to have those . |
| 7 | What everyone thought was the unveiling of an exciting new model , the Chimaera , turned out to mask something much bigger and potentially more significant — the birth of a new V8 engine , the first that TVR could truly call its own . |
| 8 | ‘ But I wanted to try to put it right in the eyes of every football follower in the country , and rectify the idea that I was a 100 per cent failure , which is what everyone thought I was . ’ |
| 9 | But I never wanted it for myself , in spite of what everyone thought . |
| 10 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 11 | Denis rallied the defeatists with a robust speech : what everyone had said showed how pretentious were some of the demands made by the party for us to interfere here , there and everywhere . |
| 12 | I acted on what everyone had told me I then asked my friend who had a contact in Tesco 's about it she said well there is one . |
| 13 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 14 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 15 | In the end , he only emphasised what everyone had long suspected that there was not much of a difference between the winner of the championship and those languishing in the back seats . |
| 16 | Ignoring once again Honderich 's polemical language , there is an important problem here : namely , how is it that Conservatism can be responsible for what everyone agrees are two very different governmental strategies informed by two very different social philosophies ? |
| 17 | Try to do what everyone considers to be good ’ ( Romans 12:17 ) . |
| 18 | Mike Atherton the England captain announcing what everyone hoped that Jack Russell is back in the England squad — and back in the team . |
| 19 | Contrary to what everyone expected , urban children suddenly subjected to the apparently healthy environment of fresh air and green fields did not show any marked improvement in health . |
| 20 | ‘ These youngsters were doing what everyone told them to do and that was not to drink and drive . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's what everyone calls me back home . ’ |
| 22 | It was all over in 60 minutes , thus confirming what everyone knew anyway — that Navratilova , at 34 , is still probably the best grass court player in the world . |
| 23 | When the evidence was in , the seven members of the board of education did what everyone knew they would . |
| 24 | No , it 's no trouble , it 's what everyone does , and the cheap calls are after six anyway . |
| 25 | Well that 's what everyone does . |
| 26 | Decisions decisions decisions — I 've never made any decisions on my own before , I 've just gone along with what everyone said . |
| 27 | What everyone feared was getting slammed into one of the Pipeline cavities like a golfball into a hole and not being able to get out again . |
| 28 | This is what everyone 's been waiting for . |
| 29 | That 's what everyone applying for that job will pitch . |
| 30 | FINALLY : Henry Cooper fought what everyone thought would be a pushover opponent at Leicester . |