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 ?
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