Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They walked on , and after what they reckoned to be another mile they paused again and looked back at Dynmouth . |
| 2 | Anne Henderson emerged from Oxford County Court , delighted , after what she described as ’ A week of Hell ’ . |
| 3 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 4 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 5 | On Feb. 18 after what he described as a " routine investigative hearing " a Libyan judge rejected extradition of the two men accused of the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 6 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 7 | Not after what he did to me ! ’ |
| 8 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 9 | Our exceptional items were rather heavier in nineteen ninety one , you wo n't be surprised after what you heard from Frank about the er , number reductions . |
| 10 | Not after what you did for us . ’ |
| 11 | But I have to , because there 's no way he 'll have time for me after what I said to him . ’ |
| 12 | I just said : ‘ Skipper , after what I said about your bowlers in the paper , I had to ! ’ |
| 13 | I never met him and , after what I heard about him , I never had any ambition so to do . |
| 14 | Yeah well it was the , it was a week ago so it 's not what I did to it , it would n't stay soggy after what I did to it . |
| 15 | But in these four cases there are features that require the decision , which was relatively recent , to be reconsidered after what I consider to be a proper procedure . |
| 16 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 17 | In the next part , I describe Buid attitudes towards what they perceive as the intrinsic aggressiveness of their lowland Christian neighbours , before turning to the activity in which the symbolism of tranquillity and aggression receives its greatest elaboration : animal sacrifice . |
| 18 | Although both candidates were Democrats , Jordan , a former chief of police , epitomized the opposition by white heterosexual conservatives towards what they perceived as the city 's minority-dominated , pro-homosexual culture as symbolized by Agnos , a former social worker . |
| 19 | Many regard SunSoft Inc as being the most dogmatic in its approach to the issue — some are worried about the company 's drift towards what they see as proprietary technology . |
| 20 | Writing in 1900 , the German architect and critic Hermann Muthesius identified as one of the most significant developments in European architecture the tendency of certain British architects towards what he described as a ‘ modern ’ style , which referred to no tradition , and created a new architectural language of space and mass . |
| 21 | The ‘ gulf … between the formal structures and machinery of government of the unions and the rank-and-file membership ’ , combined with traditional union hostility towards what it sees as parallel organisation , is a major cause of the current crisis of trade unionism in particular and the predicament of the working class more generally . |
| 22 | That 's all the more reason why you should not be cutting their budget below what they need for next year . |
| 23 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 24 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |
| 25 | It is a matter of common sense that part of what we respect in persons is a technical appreciation of the sheer range of possibilities associated with them . |
| 26 | Not all of those , of course , as already noted , are reasonable-above all , any wholesale dismissal of what we get by direct awareness is entirely futile . |
| 27 | This immediately raises the question of what we mean by the separation of two particles A and B. It seems the best we can do is argue that the two particles A and B can be considered as separate only when the individual wave packets cease to overlap . |
| 28 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |
| 29 | Indeed we no longer employ the word with full assurance , or are confident of what we mean by philosophical ‘ materialism ’ , now that we are forbidden to think of atoms as little balls out of which a universe could be constructed ; twentieth century physics has less substantial entities which would slip through one 's fingers . |
| 30 | However , it has been pointed out — most recently by Stan Gooch in his Cities of Dreams ( 1989 ) — that this is to take a rather narrow view of what we mean by civilization . |