Example sentences of "[conj] what [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether they have too much or what they have but , I mean they 're just they just think everybody owes them something , and it 's like Neil , I mean , to me I mean I ca n't see why he ca n't get off his backside and go and work in a supermarket but it 's not the job they want , the same answer I said |
| 2 | I do n't know if it shuts at five o'clock or what they do or if evening staff come on ? |
| 3 | She did n't care where she went or what she saw as long as he was pleased and she was with him . |
| 4 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 5 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 6 | Erm , one of the things that depresses me , is probably the main thing that depresses me is not being valued for what I am or what I do and I think many women suffer from depression because their strengths and their creativity are not recognised and valued . |
| 7 | We are n't nearly started breathing again cos er are you going to sleep or what you see or what you see or what |
| 8 | We are n't nearly started breathing again cos er are you going to sleep or what you see or what you see or what |
| 9 | found out , my final question tonight is do you enjoy crime fiction ? and that includes television , after all the station that this programme goes out on , wins a lot of revenue for making a very popular er detective fictional thing called Taggart , I do n't know whether you watch that , or what you read but seventy eight of you enjoy crime fiction , now there 's an interesting paradox that we will discuss , why you can discuss at home , we 'll discuss it now , good night . |
| 10 | In assuming that it may be rational to be a sceptic about value alone , we had stopped at an uncomfortable halfway house between philosophy and common sense , between the pure thinker who doubts everything and the plain man who questions neither what he sees nor what he likes or dislikes . |
| 11 | ‘ IT IS time trade union leaders realised that what they perceive as power merely prolongs their political impotence and deprives their members of a telling voice in the corridor of power . |
| 12 | Yet there was no discussion of whether the listeners wanted to hear so much about regional and area commissioners and MPs : few politicians ever questioned the assumption that what they said and did should form the basis of daily news . |
| 13 | Most people will see that what they feel and the reality of what occurs are two totally different things . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 15 | The thing is that what we need and what 's missing from this is in fact the balance that was available at the time we started this period . |
| 16 | To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment . |
| 17 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 19 | ‘ I can almost read your thoughts — yes , you are transparent , my dear — has it occurred to you that what you see and hear , my bark , might be a façade ? |
| 20 | And I have these inklings that what you commit or endure in this world , relates to some kind of system of justice or balance . |
| 21 | Some readers will find its arguments unconvincing , believing that what I see as problems are not problems at all . |
| 22 | And as a result of that we really have got overcapacity which we 've declared publicly so , you know , we 're not saying anything different today than what we said when we first purchased the business in July and August . |
| 23 | There 's more on there than what they thought or something , apparently keeps her cakes in it , so I said |
| 24 | but , erm it might of taken longer than what she thought as regards her London ends you see |
| 25 | But what i should actual fact be , one should be owing two pound more than what it says and the other one should be owing two pound less . |
| 26 | The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action . |
| 27 | As I 've indicated before you can divide them into patha and physiological effects and membrane damage more specifically than what I said before membrane damage is the i i is a particularly important thing . |
| 28 | I said you 're more naive than what I thought cos he hates , he hates me and vice versa , and he said er , who asked your opinion ? |
| 29 | Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across |
| 30 | Oh you can keep going though totally over the top I thought well Joseph 's was twelve ninety nine and Ben 's was fourteen nineteen ninety nine and that 's just tough that I 've got you know , I ca n't get Charlotte 's any cheaper than that , but , I mean they 're not gon na know how much I 've , they 're not gon na say well you 've got five pound more than what I have cos they 're not of that age so , that 's how I 've left it , that 's what I 'm gon na do , I 'll get her the circus and then they can swap them over and Joseph will be happy that he got something on wheels |