Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] what [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Good , ’ said the T'ang , seeing that what he had wanted was accomplished . |
| 3 | Some readers will find its arguments unconvincing , believing that what I see as problems are not problems at all . |
| 4 | And Jerome says that on realizing what he had done , and believing that what he had done was murder , he fled , back here into hiding . |
| 5 | Every task has a clear end in view — when they listen to a conversation on the cassette , they know why they are listening and what they need to find out . |
| 6 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 7 | Any process based on fantasy and projection is risky because women often confuse ambition and single-mindedness with emotional security , and men 's apparent knowledge of where they are going in career terms with knowing where they are going and what they want emotionally . |
| 8 | I had time to think about where I was going and what I had become . |
| 9 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 10 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 11 | See what other people are wearing and what they recommend . |
| 12 | It 's always a great temptation to look around , see what other people are doing or what they have got and want to be like them . |
| 13 | Which is another way of saying that what he did , or is said to have done , at Highbury on Tuesday night , takes some believing . |
| 14 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 15 | This is where we need to listen to what they 're asking and what they need , and give them enough to satisfy them . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it seems , in the light of pressures for greater public accountability , that the health service can not mount a credible argument as to why it should not be clear about just what activities it is performing and what they cost . |
| 17 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 18 | Both parties knew or should have known what they were doing and what they had bargained for when they entered into the contract . ’ |
| 19 | But once you got well into the business of the removal , y one forgets , you see , and you forget exactly what you 're carrying or what it appears to be that you 're carrying . |
| 20 | Foucault is most explicit on this , arguing that what he terms the ‘ repressive hypothesis ’ regarding Victorian sexuality is misleading : because it points to too narrow an interpretation of the family ; because it avoids class differentiation ; and because it is based on a negative rather than positive concept of power . |
| 21 | And bobbying and what it means , if you have eye on writing this sort of book , is what you will first have to absorb to the very marrow of your bones . |
| 22 | Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark . |
| 23 | Otherwise as meaningless as any other gesture , as deeply rooted in the moment , in how one is feeling or what one has eaten or who one has been seeing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If you are using special fonts do check with the bureau first , they may provide you with a copy of their screen font to install on your system as a way of ensuring that what you send them matches what they send you back . |
| 26 | She was smiling and what she said almost brought him up from the bed , his fists flailing . |
| 27 | I mean , when you 're actually directing a piece of work , and it does n't matter who you 're working with … they know constantly how you feel about it , and that 's sub-text as well as text , and it 's osmosis ; and a lot of it is very elliptical and oblique and subtle , and it goes on all of the time ; and you know from them how they 're taking it , how they 're working and what they think of it by exactly similar sorts of processes you get those feedbacks , and you see the work . |