Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I — she — there was something she wanted to know which I can now tell her . ’ |
| 2 | ( In exactly the same way , congenitally blind people can understand the physics of vision , but are unable to conceive what it would be like to experience seeing , for example , different colours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most seemed to know what one should do there in a variety of situations in order to be an accepted member . |
| 5 | In 1874 she planned the Association of Headmistresses in order that head teachers should ‘ hold conferences occasionally in order to know what we ought to assert and what surrender ’ . |
| 6 | The right hon. Gentleman wants to know what we shall not accept from Europe . |
| 7 | This she protested against very strongly , on the ground that she had known many missed and some murdered who essayed to travel round that way in the night ; not that she thought such dark deeds as robbery would be perpetrated by any of the islanders , ‘ But you see , sir , the island is very near the sea , and all sorts of men are sailing round about , an ’ when they 've spent all their own earnings on drink , it 's hard to know what they 'll no' do to try and get more . ’ |
| 8 | It is important to understand how managers perceive their role in organisations and to know what they would class as good management practice to understand why they themselves do things . |
| 9 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 10 | They often work out-of-uniform , giving expert advice free of charge , to anyone who wants to know what they can do to prevent crime . |
| 11 | ‘ We certainly do n't want to alarm anyone , but it is important for people to know what they can do in advance to prepare their homes against damage . ’ |
| 12 | If change is treated at the large-scale level , teachers , non-teaching staff , governors and parents can not deny the consequences of local financial management : " Pushing management decisions — for instance , about staffing complements and who should be appointed and dismissed — down to the schools will make it extremely important to know what they will do with their new-found power " ( Maclure 1990:9 ) . |
| 13 | As she hesitated , Tug found that he desperately wanted to know what she would say . |
| 14 | One was about to start work in the engineering department of Rover and was already cute enough to know what you should and should n't say to a journalist , especially when it comes to forthcoming developments of the K-series engine . |
| 15 | The key ability is to know to address problems early and to know what you can reasonably expect the banks to do . |
| 16 | A , a sentence on everything you can , think of that , that relates to it , but if you do , do practise them , it 's only just to , to talk about it , it 's difficult to know what you can write in fifteen minutes . |
| 17 | ‘ It is the butcher , ’ she said , ‘ I have to know what you will want . |
| 18 | But I 've got the sense to know what I ca n't do . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I was in agony and I 'd like to know what I should do if it happens again . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Whilst Bunyan might have rejoiced at being used to belabour the inanities and vanities of the Church of England , it is difficult to know what he would have thought of being commemorated by memorial windows in Elstow parish church and Westminster Abbey . |
| 23 | I ca n't even claim to know what he would want done , because I know almost nothing about him . |
| 24 | As an anxious new father , Belinda 's partner , Jem , read everything he could find about Down 's syndrome because he wanted to know what he could expect from the future . |
| 25 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 26 | In order to make appeal to this methodology , which is very commonly used in linguistic and philosophical discussion , we need to know what it would mean for the context to be ‘ slightly different ’ . |
| 27 | Faith may not always know , but it always wants to know what it may . |
| 28 | Please use the Careers Advisory Service and get to know what it can do for you . |
| 29 | We all know what the Labour party will do to the higher rate , but even it does not seem to know what it will do to the tax on middle managers — national insurance contributions . |
| 30 | She liked scraping the dirt away from unknown objects , trying to guess what they would be . |