Example sentences of "[adv] what i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only put down what I know to be the truth as far as I can tell . |
| 2 | Before I describe the trial of Justine Moritz , I must set down what I know about Frankenstein , in the hope of clarifying my mind . |
| 3 | This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science . |
| 4 | So what I mean by controlled access is nobody comes on i within to this flat complex , without er the se the security team knowing . |
| 5 | four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then |
| 6 | But environmental standards , as I see it , and whatever form now , whether in the posh green sense or the nitty gritty sense , which is equally as important and sometimes forgotten , environmental standards transcend , obviously transcend politics and so what I want to , would would would want to do , is to try to strip off the politics and indeed to strip off the emotion , because that 's the other thing which I think affects any real consideration of environmental issues . |
| 7 | So what I did with you last week |
| 8 | yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts |
| 9 | Erm , but I wanted some cash , so what I did in the end was walked round Asda remembered it , or thought I remembered it , came back out put the erm card back in and the terminal came up erm it 's ok . |
| 10 | Erm so what I have to is an executor appointed provided he lived in the country for instance because his address was abroad at the time . |
| 11 | As to her other point , I can say only what I said to her about her calculations on nursery school resources . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , obviously only what I read in the papers , ’ she began . |
| 13 | I saw only what I wanted to . |
| 14 | Only what I dream about at nights . |
| 15 | I bet if I told those Germans downstairs what I knew about Father 's job they 'd sit up and pay attention . |
| 16 | There is , regretfully , no space in this article to spell out in greater detail just what I mean by these dynamic explanatory constructs . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That 's just what I said to Mr Yarrow . |
| 19 | That 's just what I said during the news interview , was n't it ? |
| 20 | This chart could then be used as the basis for an essay or a piece of revision and — although the words used might be different — you would , in fact , end up by saying just what I said in that portion of text above . |
| 21 | Yes but you tend not to get recycling of housing land of housing , you tend to get recycling of housing land , new housing land from outworn industries , nonconforming use , that type of erm recycling is just what I had in mind . |
| 22 | Indeed as you watch drama on television you often think " That 's just what I want for tomorrow 's lesson . " |
| 23 | He is just what I needed for my tennis and for my life . ’ |
| 24 | Just what I wanted at the time , to 'elp me keep me figure tidy . |
| 25 | In them you have real situations which are turned into stories with a message , which is just what I do with rap . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not what I hold with , nor yet what I 'm accustomed to , ’ the matron had said virtuously , as she 'd brought a laden tray to the best spare bedchamber in the morning , ‘ but I 'm an honest woman , and I do n't cheat nobody , be they never so undeserving ! |
| 27 | It 's not what I thought at all . |
| 28 | That 's not what I mean at all . |
| 29 | But it 's not what I came for . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That 's not what I had in mind . ’ |