Example sentences of "[adj] what [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | people do what you know , everybody 's different what they do with their money |
| 2 | About half what I earn from speed . |
| 3 | The journey takes a minute or so under the hour : half what it took in Flaubert 's day . |
| 4 | KLEINWORT Benson , the merchant bank , has received A$10.66m ( £5.3m ) from the sale of its increasingly troubled Australian businesses - just half what it hoped for when it announced the deal in August . |
| 5 | in a recent sale Rod Stewart 's Lamborghini went for a mere sixty one thousand pounds , less than half what he paid for it . |
| 6 | Is not this what we said to you in Egypt , ‘ Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians ’ ? |
| 7 | Is n't this what we have at St. A. 's & St. G. 's in the very centre of the capital of Scotland , each May ? |
| 8 | ‘ Is this what it means to be a liberated woman ? |
| 9 | It 's what this what I said to Dave . |
| 10 | This what you looking for ? |
| 11 | He said in the same low , intent voice : ‘ Is this what you expected of me , Harry ? |
| 12 | Did Tony all of this what he said about that |
| 13 | ‘ It was wrong what I did to her and I will take my punishment for that . |
| 14 | A common problem with co-referential items like pronouns and demonstratives arises when it is not clear what they refer to : Sir William Lucas is " in earnest contemplation of the greatness before him " and his daughter Maria " frightened almost out of her senses " when they meet Lady Catherine at Rosings , which expresses their simplicity and nature to be easily impressed by grandeur and presentation . |
| 15 | Before we turn to the examination of the extent to which it is true to say of Parliament that it is supreme , it would be as well to make clear what we mean by the statement in the first place . |
| 16 | That is why it is so important for us to be exactly clear what we mean by support teaching , and which ‘ model ’ of support teaching is under investigation , before we can select our criteria for evaluation appropriately ( see Table 8.3 ) . |
| 17 | This is because it is not clear what we mean by ‘ choice point ’ . |
| 18 | Before turning to these — set out in two stages ( see below , pp. 93 – 106 ) — we need to be clear what we mean by reflective thinking , and that pupils can do it . |
| 19 | You 'll see that it is written in a slightly more formal style so that you can be absolutely clear what we expect of your now that you are working in the ES . |
| 20 | In constructing our programmes of study we have tried to avoid overlap and to make clear what we consider to be associated with which attainment targets , but some points will inevitably appear more than once . |
| 21 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 22 | By closing down Polish educational institutions ( notably the university at Vil'na and the lycée at Krzemieniec ) , by suppressing the Uniate Church ( in 1839 ) , by abolishing Magdeburg Law in Kiev ( in 1835 ) and the Lithuanian Statute throughout the region ( in 1840 ) , by promoting the publication of history books which argued that the western provinces had been Russian from time immemorial , by depriving many Poles of noble status , by promoting the interests of their Ukrainian and Belorussian serfs , and by insisting that local administration be conducted in Russian , he sought to make clear what he meant by allowing " Nationality " , narodnost' , to be attached to " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " in the celebrated circular of 1833 . |
| 23 | He made clear what he had in mind : |
| 24 | Can I be clear what you mean by Mr ? |
| 25 | I th I 'm not challenging that , I simply wish to be clear what you mean by it . |
| 26 | For others the best way might be talking dirty about safer sex , or just by making it clear what you want by your actions . |
| 27 | * Use a pronoun only when it is completely clear what it refers to ( see p. 122 ) . |
| 28 | This may seem confusing if it is not made clear what she means by ‘ literal ’ . |
| 29 | I shall from time to time use some of their material for further analysis and in order to make clear what I mean by structure . |
| 30 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |