Example sentences of "[verb] what [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Marpole highlights what you can see country-wide and outlines a fascinating walk in the Norfolk Broads |
| 2 | The fountains in the Piazza Navona , and then the Fontana di Trevi , and the Campo de ’ Fiori where we can buy what we 'll need for our picnic — ’ |
| 3 | Second , the defendant has what one might term the ‘ lawful motivation ’ , believing that the actions taken were right and proper . |
| 4 | Each language has what we might call general preferences for certain patterns of reference as well as specific preferences that are sensitive to text type . |
| 5 | In brief , he has to step back two generations and undergo what one may call a painful cultural circumcision ( God 's Lively People , Fontana , 1971 ) . |
| 6 | When Mrs Reynolds came to visit her husband , the staff nurse spent some time with them both explaining what they should expect immediately after the operation and she arranged for Mrs Reynolds to telephone the ward the following afternoon . |
| 7 | In that envelope is a letter explaining what I would like . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
| 10 | To a hushed court Dr Howe described what he would do if the court granted the application . |
| 11 | They suggest what I shall argue : that integrity rather than some superstition of elegance is the life of law as we know it . |
| 12 | And I realise what I can do . ’ |
| 13 | We 're brought up short when we recollect what we used to know — useless knowledge , if we work in an ad agency or a civil engineer 's office , the mere residue of an undirected education — but knowledge which is still appealing , for all its uselessness . |
| 14 | Most seemed to know what one should do there in a variety of situations in order to be an accepted member . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | As she hesitated , Tug found that he desperately wanted to know what she would say . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ It is the butcher , ’ she said , ‘ I have to know what you will want . |
| 23 | I was in agony and I 'd like to know what I should do if it happens again . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I ca n't even claim to know what he would want done , because I know almost nothing about him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Please use the Careers Advisory Service and get to know what it can do for you . |
| 30 | 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 . |