Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] what i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I shall content myself with quoting what I hope by now is a familiar argument for the Minister , advanced by the Audit Commission . |
| 2 | I could n't get round to saying what I wanted to . |
| 3 | A good reputation will be merely a means to winning what I want from others ; I shall care nothing for the respect or contempt of people who can not help or ham me , and find no pleasure in the prospect of millions seeing my face on television or reading my books after I am dead . |
| 4 | This being so , it is all the more important to end by underlining what I take to be gained by the acceptance of my proposal that concessive holism should be adopted as the most fruitful approach to social explanation . |
| 5 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |