Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [Wh det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | D' ya know what the sales code does on your B M S ? |
2 | D' ya know what the axis is ? |
3 | What d' you mean what a shame ? |
4 | D' you remember what the papers and TV said about it , Mr Barnes ? ’ |
5 | ‘ We want him to see what the reality is , compared with the tabloid myth , ’ said a party organiser . |
6 | Er now let's go back over oh first of all let me explain what the idea is Hello . |
7 | Let me know what the prospects are . ’ |
8 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
9 | Let us consider what the interviewer is trying to do when seeking an interview and what the reaction of the informant may be . |
10 | So let us see what the questionnaire can tell us . |
11 | … let us see what the statement of claim alleges , or rather does not allege . |
12 | ‘ I believe I know what the club need to check the slide . |
13 | I find that whenever I notice some sentence in context , I immediately find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . |
14 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
15 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
16 | No I think I know what a rose smells like . |
17 | after seventeen years in the business I think I know what an almond looks like |
18 | . I think you know what a washing machine |
19 | Do you think what the parents have decided is fair ? |
20 | Do you know what a Gas Board ID should look like ? |
21 | If it 's got another consonant do you know what a consonant is ? |
22 | ‘ Do you know what a vestry is , children ? ’ asked a friend of mine , probably hoping that none of them did . |
23 | ‘ Do you know what a man in the restaurant did to me today ? ’ she said . |
24 | And when , in the evening , the restaurant was busy again , Tildy put down the food on the tables and said quietly , ‘ Do you know what a man in the restaurant did to me today ? |
25 | Do you know what a Clinometer is ? |
26 | Ah do you know what a vowel is ? |
27 | This is crap this Do you know what a flat , a top roof flat roofed houses you ca n't have a mortgage . |
28 | ’ ‘ Do you know what a Lancashire cocktail is ? ’ |
29 | Do you know what the reading was ? |
30 | Do you know what the Turks did ? |