Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 2 | Right so what you said I said how do you spell sock S O C K but what you said was S H O C K. |
| 3 | ‘ Our supreme contribution to Africa … is not so much what we do as what we are ’ , wrote Walter Crocker . |
| 4 | The support crew is there at every possible point and it 's not so much what they give us , it 's just the fact that they are there . |
| 5 | It was not so much What you know' as ‘ who you know ’ and this heightened their already serious sense of unfairness . |
| 6 | Then it does n't matter so much what you say that stops it walking in front of the bus , it 's actually how you say it . |
| 7 | It was n't so much what he had done , though it was the very last thing she had expected , it was the way it had felt , like a high-voltage jolt of electricity . |
| 8 | Then he said , ‘ What I need from you is not so much what he paid you , but why . |
| 9 | It was n't so much what she thought . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , obviously only what I read in the papers , ’ she began . |
| 11 | Thinking of his earlier remark , Cassie said bluntly : ‘ Well , I 've only just about got one foot in the middle class bracket , myself , so perhaps you 'd be slumming if you made love to me , which is so obviously what you have in mind . ’ |
| 12 | If we just take those , so basically what we 've done is we 've cut down all the luxuries in your life |
| 13 | But on a Sunday erm the restaurant is open from twelve o'clock so what you 've got to I mean if you want a table for say , four or six of you |
| 14 | Write down exactly what you hope to do with your new horse and what your priorities are ; perhaps you want to hack and compete in Riding Club events , or maybe you want to concentrate on dressage or show jumping . |
| 15 | As Le Cerf 's use of the terms ton and mode is somewhat confused this was perhaps exactly what he had in mind ; certainly his contemporary Michel de Saint Lambert was employing ton in the sense of a tonic upon which one could build a piece that was in either the major or minor mode . |
| 16 | And so probably what we need to think about is how you can improve your contributions to the whole thing . |
| 17 | Note down clearly what he says and meditate on this . |
| 18 | Perhaps he had not said to himself that in a marriage between two like this , someone was going to have to know a little less clearly what they had wanted . |
| 19 | So now what they 've done is playing a match . |
| 20 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 21 | Well ever so often what they do they get the ex catalogue stuff . |
| 22 | Lupus feared his anger and advised others not to provoke it ( " I consider it dangerous to obstruct the king 's orders " ) ; felt hurt when Charles very obviously " does n't care about the things that matter to me " ; appreciated Charles 's personally " asking me at Bourges not long ago what I felt about Predestination " ; and was well aware that Charles " has a face that he puts on when he wants to be charming " . |
| 23 | So you had to choose that er , you have to do that and the fifth thing that I wrote down here which I had to do , a sequence er , of work . |
| 24 | Okay er There 's one title I 've got written down here which I do n't know if anyone 's interested in . |
| 25 | He was raw to bad news , more raw as he grew older , which was not perhaps quite what he had expected . |
| 26 | So maybe what we need to do is to pay more for the timber , and be prepared to do that . |
| 27 | So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic , and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like . |
| 28 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 29 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 30 | Finally , anthologies exist for all kinds of text , so sometimes what you need can be found there . |