Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |
| 2 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 3 | Lastly , many scientists believe that an MD is a waste of time while a PhD is what everyone should do ; most of these people are out of touch with the real world . |
| 4 | She has to have the money , though , because goodness knows what her rent will be , and Rose Macaulay says she will not pay a penny more but Rose will do exactly what everyone will have to do and pay what she is told . |
| 5 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
| 6 | What I ca n't now work out is how as a university student in England I managed to get tickets for Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at those first Easter Festivals . |
| 7 | But I 've got the sense to know what I ca n't do . |
| 8 | ‘ What it 's all about is what I ca n't fathom . |
| 9 | That 's what I ca n't get over . |
| 10 | Maybe what I ca n't help bringing into some of my work is that all this beauty on Koraloona demands a price . |
| 11 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
| 12 | What I ca n't understand is how this all went on under my nose . ’ |
| 13 | What I ca n't do , however , is close off the script until I know the facts . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah , that 's what I ca n't stand , the suffering , ’ said Shirley , jumping to her feet , her fifteen-year-old voice reasserting , boldly , frailly , the tones of elsewhere , of normality and new Birds Eye peas and modern kitchenettes , of television and hands fumbling inside brassières : ‘ I ca n't stand the suffering , I wo n't suffer , I 've had enough of suffering . ’ |
| 15 | She explained : ‘ I 'm the boss and I delegate what I ca n't do . |
| 16 | This is what I ca n't understand . |
| 17 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ she said at last , coming to a stop again behind David 's chair , ‘ is why he married me at all and why he … . ’ |
| 18 | Erm and then I thought , now , what I ca n't do is I I ca n't do what we did last year a and really put a photograph and a des and a description of it . |
| 19 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 20 | What what what I ca n't understand , I can be alright , at the day , and as |
| 21 | But what I ca n't do is to look back and saying you 've been , you are like this now but |
| 22 | ‘ I thought so , but what I ca n't understand is why you 're letting Dana get away with it . |
| 23 | That 's what I ca n't forgive — that he should be so gormless ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | What I ca n't take is seeing you distressed like this and not knowing why . |
| 26 | Erm , you know , this is what I ca n't understand , we have n't heard this . |
| 27 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ Richards said , ‘ is why we have to wait . |
| 28 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is this . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What I ca n't see , though , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ is why bother with all this ? |
| 30 | But you can do what I ca n't do , I can do what you ca n't do . |