Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just time for a card — we leave in half an hour — had our last night on the Johnny Walker now it 's local firewater or nothing remember what I said on the phone and do n't have it cut too short . |
| 2 | That 's that 's it until I know or I know what I 'm actually looking for in it I can run around chasing me tail all day which |
| 3 | I drop you off at my flat where you do what you like . |
| 4 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 5 | Using a computer to help in your child 's education is fine , providing he or she understands what a keyboard is all about . |
| 6 | Does he or she know what to do ? |
| 7 | Does he or she know what will happen if the rules are broken ? |
| 8 | The domestic empiricist is not concerned with the generalities or principles underlying the cooker or the car ; he or she sees what has to be done to achieve a desired end and that is that . |
| 9 | MPD frequently arises in people who were sexually abused as children , or who experienced what Putnam calls ‘ sensory deprivation ’ — being bound , gagged , stuffed in trunks or locked in closets for example . |
| 10 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 11 | Since such a review stands rather apart from the rest of the material , it is presented separately , in Appendix A , where we consider what syntax is and is not , and the difficulties that have beset previous attempts to explain it , of which the principal result has been an implicit acceptance of what may be called the " perspicuity of grammar " . |
| 12 | Dot said , ‘ In the country , where we just been , there 's this lady where we stayed what has n't eaten a banana so long she 's forgotten the taste , and what 's growing these melons in her garden . |
| 13 | Where we decide what colour the formica in the lavatories in the new building is going to be . |
| 14 | Sorry , that 's what we call the Monday morning meeting where we discuss what 's going on . |
| 15 | And we made within two minutes to sort out what we were going to , or we decided what charity first , then we decided two would decide on the script while the others cut out relevant pieces that we thought might be useful words . |
| 16 | Where they ask what are your vital signs , they do n't mean have you got a pulse or high blood pressure , they mean have you got Access or Visa . |
| 17 | Colum Cill , after causing the Battle of the Books , came back to Tara for the Convention of Drumceat at the Hill of Synod , where they discussed what to do about poets . |
| 18 | This is where they do such good , where they really make a visit worth while and where they learn what ordinary people think , need and feel . |
| 19 | This may require him or her to use what might be called ‘ metaphysical ’ terms . |
| 20 | A representative and influential attempt was made by Plekhanov in his essay , The Role of the Individual in History , where he considers what effect the characters of prominent people such as kings and statesmen have on the course of events . |
| 21 | At Marlborough College , where he runs what is widely recognised as the best art department at any school in Britain , his students have repeatedly achieved the highest A-grade results in the country . |
| 22 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 23 | It never occurred to Robbins that there was any need to describe the internal culture of higher education ; it was taken for granted that everyone knew what it was , or at least what it should be . |
| 24 | So she kept her doubts to herself , merely remarking that everyone knew what Frenchmen were like and turning the whole thing into a rather laboured joke in which Iris eventually joined . |
| 25 | These names are either prescribed by law ( wholemeal bread ) or clearly descriptive ( beef stew and dumpling ) or , in the case of fish fingers , the name has been used for so long that everyone knows what they are . |
| 26 | The group assumes that everyone knows what the objectives are . |
| 27 | The purpose of the group meeting should be made clear from the start so that everyone knows what they are about , and what is expected of them . |
| 28 | It wants to make sure that everyone knows what harassment is , that harassment will not be tolerated and that there is a procedure for dealing with the problem . |
| 29 | Information can be given to each child separately ( either verbally or in writing ) , so that no-one knows what the others ' information is . |
| 30 | ‘ What we need to do is set up a regular lunch date so everyone knows what 's happening . |