Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is quite brazenly staging a public spectacle — a spectacle for which he knew he would either have been stigmatised as an upstart and a blasphemer , or acknowledged as precisely what he claimed to be . |
| 2 | Okay that 's good that adds up now what sort of fraction , what sort of fraction are you spending on stationery ? |
| 3 | They need in this very complex situation to check the accuracy of the various financial documents and to know not only what representations were made but how accurate they were . |
| 4 | I mean it 's not just letting the excesses go which I think understand it when you first said it , so that idea in itself is a Party idea , it 's not just letting the , the peasants do it and say well okay what you 're trying to say now is that okay that we have got this strategy , we 'll let the excesses go and then we 'll stop it , we get to about stage B and stage C and move on and move on . |
| 5 | It was therefore very refreshing to find a group of general practitioners meeting with managers and spelling out precisely what they wanted and , through the contracting process , beginning to see the possibility of achieving it . |
| 6 | and to pursue the options that are are available to us , and that 's what I hope the Treasurer will do , er , and this is all we 're approving at the moment , and that an an and to find out just what the , how the land lies , what the best position is , what interest rates that we might be able to get , and over what period and I I I er support this er er er er this expense bud budget . |
| 7 | It can be a valuable exercise to sit down and work out just what you spend . |
| 8 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 9 | Those books Thérèse read too but pretended she did n't because then she 'd have to go to confession about them and spell out exactly what she 'd thought . |
| 10 | So , since for the present Neil preferred to lie low and find out just what Ewen was up to , I could not tell Mrs McDougall of Ewen 's night-time visit . |
| 11 | Far better to invest in a simpler program and find out just what it can do for your business . |
| 12 | List all your materials , every part of the process that will cost money and find out beforehand what the cost will be . |
| 13 | They could investigate the performance at the limits of the range and find out exactly what eventually makes the sound unintelligible . |
| 14 | Slowly , as if driven , and knowing full well what she was doing , Meredith pulled off her hat and released her own hair again as he neared the end of the duckboards , still gently guiding the old lady and chatting to her courteously . |
| 15 | He cross-examined Hunt and knew perfectly well what he was doing . |
| 16 | He was lucid about himself and knew perfectly well what was being said behind his back . |
| 17 | Ellie recovered her composure and understood perfectly well what Madame meant once she had tried on her first set of crepe de Chine camiknickers . |
| 18 | So think of a question for each of them then and write then down what you might ask them . |
| 19 | Mandeville simply stroked his dark face as if weighing up carefully what he was to do next . |
| 20 | During or after the consumption of the good one or another would stand and say very simply what love and grace of God meant to him or her . |
| 21 | One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like . |
| 22 | Mr. Stubbs , who lives at Corry Road , Hindhead refers to the great environmental writers and adds , ‘ I salute these noble men and women and hope that people will read their work and learn not only what we have lost but also what can still be saved in our beautiful world . ’ |
| 23 | Spouses who know that the way they behave will affect their partners ' chances of getting a job should try and find out beforehand what is expected of them . |
| 24 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |