Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd inwardly fumed when he told her drug users were habitual liars , that they 'd say or do anything to get what they wanted . |
| 2 | ‘ We do not consider that the judgment in [ Dobson ] requires or allows us to disregard what we have earlier in this judgment sought to extract as the ratio of the decision in [ Morris ] . |
| 3 | All too often , it is also a form of manipulation — a way of hurting or punishing others , or persuading them to do what we want , in the absence of honesty and integrity . |
| 4 | Somehow John forced or persuaded her to achieve what she had found impossible before and , more important , he also won from her a performance of quietly expressive lyricism . |
| 5 | Do you hold a wet finger up to the wind and say that 's it or do you calculate what it is ? |
| 6 | Or did he know what my inclination was ? |
| 7 | Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves . |
| 8 | So wh what was it In what way do you know , I mean is it the About the flats themselves , I mean are they are they the same , or have they gone What about the flats are they are they any different to w when you first came here ? |
| 9 | We have no statistics to tell us how many children are involved , how long they spend in any one of these stages of transition , nor do we know what effect these experiences have on them or on their relationships with natural or step-parents . |
| 10 | Nor do we know what the implications of Sotheby 's withdrawal from the court hearings over the Sevso hoard of silver will be ( see this page ) . |
| 11 | Nor do we know what comparative standards our informants are using . |
| 12 | The Piraeus kouros appears to have an iron armature inside , so was cast in one piece ( one of the advantages of sectional casting is that the core can be removed ) ; but it has not been properly studied or published and we can not say what methods were used ; nor do we know what was the nature of Rhoikos ' and Theodoros 's innovation . |
| 13 | Nor did they know what he looked like . |
| 14 | Nor did she know whose embrace she was seeking . |
| 15 | The offer , reported by the official ADN news agency , contained no date for such negotiations , nor did it specify which groups should take part . |
| 16 | Nor did he mean what he and Barth had joined in attacking in Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology ( Brunner being indeed far sharper and harsher against Schleiermacher than Barth ever was : Barth used to insist that only one who was capable of loving Schleiermacher was entitled to criticise him ) , namely the supplementing of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ by additional sources of a more general religious or ethical kind . |
| 17 | Nor does he specify what kind of effects might be achieved by a reformulation or explain how it achieves those effects . |
| 18 | Editor , — J K Aronson and D J M Reynolds 's article on monitoring treatment with aminoglycoside antibiotics does not adequately address optimal dosing with these agents or the timing of assays , nor does it specify which patients need monitoring . |
| 19 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 20 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 21 | I ‘ hung ’ them and asked him to choose which one was best . |
| 22 | He altered that to , ‘ Can you put the light out , dear ? ’ when she bashed him with the book and asked him to repeat what he had said . |
| 23 | Could anyone ever knock any sense into this thick skull , and make me see what kind of a man I 'm stuck with ? ’ |
| 24 | Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
| 26 | When Rune successfully tried his luck at a shooting gallery and invited her to choose which prize she wanted , she selected a paperweight in the form of the Little Mermaid sitting on her rock . |
| 27 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 28 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 29 | Ianthe had gone into a kind of day dream and found herself wondering what John did in the evenings . |
| 30 | Her handwriting was distinctly visible so I rewound the film and stopped it to see what she had written . |