Example sentences of "[to-vb] what i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To believe that people have been sensible of God in other ages is not however to accept what I may call the ‘ vehicle ’ of the Christian myth which has carried their religious sensibilities . |
| 2 | But I 've got the sense to know what I ca n't do . |
| 3 | From the family home in Betchworth , Surrey , Nicholas 's stunned father Peter said : ‘ I want to know what I can legally say about this whole sad and unhappy upset . ’ |
| 4 | I was in agony and I 'd like to know what I should do if it happens again . |
| 5 | Now if you want to know what I 'd like , which holiday I 'd like and I probably will never do it , mind you I ne I need the person to go with because definitely you need a person to go with , I 'd love to go on the Orient Express . |
| 6 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 7 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 8 | Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ? |
| 9 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 10 | Right , now you 're doing what I used to do what I used to do when I started , okay ? |
| 11 | ‘ I like to do what I can , you know . |
| 12 | I want to do what I can to open the gateways , ’ he told New Scientist . |
| 13 | ‘ I am going to do what I can to bang their heads together — but it is , frankly , hard going , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ They have asked me to do what I can to help and I am happy to do so . ’ |
| 15 | But , she resolved , I 'm going to do what I can to put a stop to it . |
| 16 | As a teacher I try to do what I can , but in a lot of cases you come up against a brick wall with a lot of racist graffiti on it ! |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm bound to do what I can to help Sam . ’ |
| 18 | In September 1764 , eighteen months after they first met , Boswell told Johnson in a letter from Saxony , ‘ It shall be my study to do what I can to render your life happy ; and , if you die before me , I shall endeavour to do honour to your memory . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I have to do what I can for Rebecca ; you know that , do n't you ? |
| 20 | I 'm anxious to do what I can , but I do n't know the first thing about looking after children . |
| 21 | I will have to do what I can now to pick up the threads of my life . |
| 22 | I think Con was strong enough and single-minded enough to do what I should have done years ago . |
| 23 | That we might be , not frustrated , you know , frustration is because , I 'm not able to do what I should be doing . |
| 24 | And so I had to do what I could ; I … |
| 25 | I went on , telling him how pitiful her situation was , if he would only go and see he would understand , and how I felt it my duty to do what I could , working myself up into a noble sweat of righteousness . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew he was already dead but I just wanted to do what I could . ’ |
| 27 | I was glad to do what I could for my friend , the only survivor of the Praça days . |
| 28 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 29 | I think at the point where I was struggling to understand what I could do to help myself , I certainly was n't aware of anything called patient-centred medicine at that point , or group-activity in relation to health . |
| 30 | First your mother , now you , trying to dictate what I should read . |