Example sentences of "what [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | That always mends what nothing breaks . |
2 | What nothing they found ? |
3 | You know what them stallholders are , up to all the tricks . ’ |
4 | ‘ That 's what them other coppers kept on at me about ! |
5 | Who knows but what them politicians wo n't have us all blown to kingdom come ? |
6 | them particular chemicals and then submit it to the , the insurance company , what them 's the only chemicals you use , and the company said this and that . |
7 | Do n't what them . |
8 | oh well you know what them are |
9 | What them there ? |
10 | What them little hand held ones ? |
11 | Ooh aye , what them bloody cars |
12 | What them ? |
13 | I do n't know what them fly things are for . |
14 | What them ? |
15 | What them lot ? |
16 | It 's like this is the only nights what them , d' ya know , Glen was going rather . |
17 | oh I do n't buy I only buy what them likes , but as you say |
18 | The problem had arisen because the first plan used had a river running through the property — what no-one had realised was that the course of the river had changed , leaving a piece of land unconveyed . |
19 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |
20 | Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment . |
21 | ‘ What no-one condones is raking the head and we just still ca n't accept what happened to Victor Ubogu on the B tour last year when his ear was almost sliced away from his head . ’ |
22 | What no-one seems ready to notice is that , by and large , self-regulation is working . |
23 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
24 | It was all over in 60 minutes , thus confirming what everyone knew anyway — that Navratilova , at 34 , is still probably the best grass court player in the world . |
25 | When it was over , Robert Hughes , PPS to Ted Heath and dampish MP for Harrow West , put into words what everyone was thinking . |
26 | The business of compulsion is not something theoretical or peripheral ; it is of the essence of a right , because there is no point in declaring a right to what everyone is going to have anyhow . |
27 | This business of compulsion is not something theoretical or peripheral ; it is of the essence of a right , because there is no point in declaring a right to what everyone is going to have anyhow . |
28 | Ignoring once again Honderich 's polemical language , there is an important problem here : namely , how is it that Conservatism can be responsible for what everyone agrees are two very different governmental strategies informed by two very different social philosophies ? |
29 | To tell the truth , I was n't really listening to what everyone was saying . |
30 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |