Example sentences of "[to-vb] what i [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to know what I get for that . |
| 2 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 3 | Do you want to know what I look like ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And who 's to know what I do to you out here in the middle of nowhere ? ’ |
| 5 | It is against this background therefore that I would like to state what I see as the relevance of Christianity to political economy . |
| 6 | After her decision to stop working with a model , she wrote : ‘ Through the long time of working on studies , I finally have attained a certain background in technique which allows me to express what I want without a model . ’ |
| 7 | His son James said : ‘ I ca n't find words to express what I feel about the people who did this . |
| 8 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 9 | If they only want me to stay for a year then I 'm entitled to do what I want under freedom of contract . |
| 10 | The kind of woman I 'm interested in is adult enough to recognise what I want from the outset . |
| 11 | Almost as though he 's trying to memorise what I look like , thought Juliet , knowing she could never forget his brown eyes and curling eyelashes , and the smile that hovered on his lips . |
| 12 | I have to decide what I mean by ‘ working-class ’ , and then I have to choose an ‘ indicator ’ of this concept . |
| 13 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 14 | Just a means to get what I want with the least amount of trouble . ’ |
| 15 | The behaviours I will use to get what I want from Bill |
| 16 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |
| 17 | I have merely tried to unravel what I take to be some of the main underlying oversimplifications which have informed educational practices in the field of ‘ race ’ and education , whether state-led or self-consciously oppositionist . |
| 18 | but I ought to explain what I mean by budgeted fi figure . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 20 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |
| 21 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 22 | Do let me have a chance to prove what I believe in . ’ |