Example sentences of "[adv] what [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather , since he indubitably wanted a relationship with Alexandra , perhaps what he hoped for was to dictate the terms , rather than have them dictated to him . |
| 2 | I do n't I do n't believe it is erm at the mo well earlier this week a report was published by the National Commission on Education which was er an independent erm Commission that was set up erm and they they 've said that basically what we need to be doing is t if we 're trying to raise standards is to keep the idea of having an all graduate profess profession followed up by high quality for train training for teachers once they 've actually started work . |
| 3 | I had two people working for me then , and basically what we did for two years was to do this type of work on unbelievable amounts of equipment . |
| 4 | you were saying , yeah , but we 've got to know , basically what they need to be paying |
| 5 | OK : one more when we get home and that 's all before bedtime , he thought , facing the fact that bedtime was probably all too literally what she had in mind . |
| 6 | You know I think that was very much what they had in mind . |
| 7 | ‘ Our supreme contribution to Africa … is not so much what we do as what we are ’ , wrote Walter Crocker . |
| 8 | Of course in rural situations this can be overcome by merely peeing outside , a course of action not open to you in the city , unless of course you live in London where it does n't matter much what you do in the street . |
| 9 | It was not so much What you know' as ‘ who you know ’ and this heightened their already serious sense of unfairness . |
| 10 | Traditionally an Englishman is as much what he does in his free time as in his hours of work , and both Who 's who and the obituary columns honour this fact . |
| 11 | THE author Salman Rushdie is not one to let death threats prevent him doing pretty much what he wants to , as flamboyantly as he wants to . |
| 12 | On such grounds as these he argued that the experience of the author and that of the reader must necessarily be different , that ‘ what a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author ’ ( Eliot 1955 : 130 ) . |
| 13 | However , central government authorities bring in what they refer to as " casual workers " in such circumstances . |
| 14 | It 's called time , it gives you a little space at the top so you can fill in what you feel to be your role , and if you can fill below , all the tasks in respective order that you do in a typical day . |
| 15 | And obviously what he did to me |
| 16 | Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah we 're gon na have about twenty five people there I think , twenty five 's enough what we gon na do about sitting down what |
| 19 | What we are looking to do here is to water down what we have at the moment . |
| 20 | I can only put down what I know to be the truth as far as I can tell . |
| 21 | Before I describe the trial of Justine Moritz , I must set down what I know about Frankenstein , in the hope of clarifying my mind . |
| 22 | Three p and five p and write down what it comes to . |
| 23 | I asked him to write down what he liked about the skinhead style and , after a few moments ' thought , he dashed off the above . |
| 24 | and just , is it all you have to do is jot down what you want from the terminal |
| 25 | Putting together what we know about girls " apprenticeships — lasting three or four years — and wage rates , it can be deduced that from the age of say 17 until perhaps 25 for those who married , women compositors were doing the equivalent of full-time typesetting for wages that varied between half and two-thirds the adult male wage , depending on whether stab or piece rates are measured . |
| 26 | Casting her mind back , she tried to work out what it was , piecing together what she knew of him . |
| 27 | This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science . |
| 28 | As Lazaris puts it , we always get what we want — but not necessarily what we asked for . |
| 29 | Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer . |
| 30 | So what they gon na build behind you , another garage ? |