Example sentences of "[conj] what [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no matter who the attacker is , or what he intends to do , the rule remains the same : seize the initiative and keep it . |
| 2 | They may know nothing about media selection , or how to produce a TV commercial , or what it costs to buy a 20 cm × 5 cols space in the Finchley Advertiser . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , it deals mainly with the fighting , and says little about internal politics or the king , although what it does say is very interesting . |
| 4 | But he must take care that what he creates builds up to a monolithic whole . |
| 5 | However , the court held that the accused does not have this exception when he knows that what he proposes to do is a crime . |
| 6 | If you read his book you will see that what he seems to have had in mind when he coined the phrase about man being " an invention of recent date and one perhaps nearing its end " was something like this . |
| 7 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |
| 8 | Although he still believes that what he 's done is right , that er that his wife has se deserves what she 's got . |
| 9 | It may be that what he 's said in court is purely something to get back at you and he does n't really mean it . |
| 10 | And if you 're putting him right over clubs , you 'd better be 101 percent right if you 're telling him that what he 's got in mind is the wrong thing . |
| 11 | Can my right hon. Friend confirm that what he has said this afternoon is in line with that ? |
| 12 | I assure the right hon. Gentleman that what he has said is not correct . |
| 13 | If he had , he would know that what he has said is not right . |
| 14 | As for reporting to Daddy , you go right ahead , though you might find that what he has to say is n't much to your liking . ’ |
| 15 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 16 | ‘ Grant that what he has seen may not be a thing sent to tempt him ! ’ |
| 17 | Well I would probably want her not to have too much less than what she 's got at the moment because |
| 18 | ‘ She talks more about the stars she has met than what she has done . ’ |
| 19 | But seriously I 'm against this budget because of what is , what it does n't contain rather than what it does contain . |
| 20 | The legislation does not require other than what it 's got . ’ |
| 21 | He will though , he 'll get more now than what he 's paid for it ! |
| 22 | And what she seems to have done was to listen too attentively and unquestioningly to ideas about Scottish barbarity and backwardness , and , crucially , Scottish lack of respect for their kings . |
| 23 | Yes I have spoken to Mrs who is the er er the woman involved and what she has said is this , the We ca n't directly we ca n't directly get hold of it , they wo n't send it out into the community . |
| 24 | Similarly , the ward sister must know the previous experience of the learner , what her capabilities are and what she needs to learn on the ward . |
| 25 | A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway . |
| 26 | The character talks freely about himself , and what he hopes to gain from his new rank . |
| 27 | Worship , you see , is the action of the entire congregation who together proclaim what God has done and what he continues to do ; we feed on his word — sacrament and Scripture — and are strengthened by his Spirit and sustained by mutual fellowship . |
| 28 | Dr. Briant has told us how his project is operating , and what he expects to discover from it . |
| 29 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 30 | Christian presuppositions are nothing less than the whole truth of who God is and what he has done for us . |