Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb mod] [verb] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
| 2 | The fountains in the Piazza Navona , and then the Fontana di Trevi , and the Campo de ’ Fiori where we can buy what we 'll need for our picnic — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ A tiny little place we could run ourselves , and have our own things with us , and where we could do what we liked . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing is , ’ Jackie explained , ‘ none of us has much , so we ought to put what we have together in case one of us ever needs anything important . |
| 5 | ‘ We had to call the police helicopter in to light up the area so we could see what we were doing . ’ |
| 6 | If we can do more — if we can do what I have described — so be it . |
| 7 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 8 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |