Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Pallis could not name the other party or say exactly what kind of development was proposed . |
| 2 | On every woman Cara had ever seen one could do something to enhance what Nature had given , or cover up what had been left out . |
| 3 | Verbatim notes are used where you want to record everything that is being said in a lecture or copy exactly what appears in print in a book or magazine article . |
| 4 | Quick satisfaction may be achieved but the resulting clarity fails to raise any interest in the process itself so that there is no desire to repeat the experience , analyse it or find out what others have been saying . |
| 5 | The station commander , who just happened to be a bit of an oppo of mine called " Bull " Jarmen — a great monster of a fellow and a Kiwi to boot — who was heard to say : " Well , it was very convenient him leaving it there ; you did not have to travel very far to collect it or find out what happened to the undercarriage . " |
| 6 | That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want . |
| 7 | Or work out what I 'm doing here , maybe make a little , few little notes to yourself . |
| 8 | ( Pick out the parts of the book which make you think this. ) 2 The boy and the girl continue their argument , pointing out the parts of the book that back up what they are saying . |
| 9 | Okay so this was worked out not really knowing anything about what 's going on here we 've got that and that go together what would happen well pretty good bet that you 'd get this calcium chloride cos that seems to form pretty easily . |
| 10 | Well my first reason would be that it 's fun but if you want a justification then all I can say is that it is still useful to be able to produce your own programs that do exactly what you want . |
| 11 | If you do n't know anything about computers , just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result . |
| 12 | In other words , it will be those that do just what the grumblers demand — cutting imports , using local suppliers , doing R&D on the spot — that will be most threatening to General Motors , Ford , Volkswagen , Peugeot and Fiat . |
| 13 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 14 | Go and be a hanger-on at Henry 's storehouses , and pick up what grain you can . |
| 15 | We thought perhaps we can use that as a goal standard , and pick up what actually happens with our project to compare the two . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you having a good meeting ? ’ , you know , and then of course all decisions involve human evaluations because a decision is a choice among alternative images of the future really and we evaluate these and pick out what we think is the best , obviously . |
| 17 | You will be angry I know and accuse me of all manner of evil things but one thing you can not accuse me of Lily is not caring for your son upon whose life I swear I love him truly and want only what is best for him . |
| 18 | A bustling market , dark , smokey houses and a busy wharf have all been re-created in accurate detail so that you can experience in sight , sound and smell exactly what it was like to live and work in the Viking city of Jorvik . |
| 19 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 20 | He says , you know , what do you think and I say well look it 's up to you and I put the question back to him and say well what do you think ? |
| 21 | The compilers of the catechism seemed to have no doubt that it was perfectly possible to define God and say precisely what he is . |
| 22 | and say now what was the question erm erm |
| 23 | This means that those with more conventional tastes in hosiery ( and more substantial overheads ) are obliged to take ever-smaller profits while trying to stay ahead of the game and figure out what the next business-machine craze might turn out to be . |
| 24 | They now have a week off to review things and figure out what to do after Wednesday night debacle . |
| 25 | In Britain the assumption is that citizens have no right to official information , and receive only what the government chooses to tell them . |
| 26 | That feral cats may arrive every Wednesday to be fed is obviously , she seems to think , evidence that they have a ‘ count of days ’ and anticipate hopefully what is to come : |
| 27 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend take any action to shorten that period and clear up what is a highly unsatisfactory situation , whatever view one takes on Sunday opening ? |
| 28 | Since the relationships were all in fives , one could tell if a particular category was missing from our present knowledge and predict roughly what kind of new organism would eventually be discovered to fill the gap . |
| 29 | ‘ Listen to me carefully and pass on what I say to all the others . |
| 30 | Again , it is a matter of personal preference whether you prepare the bud or rootstock stem first , but until you have had some practice and know just what is involved , I suggest that you start with the bud . |