Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speakers express their message in terms of their own perceptions and within their own frame of reference without making any attempt to relate what they want to say with what the other person is likely to hear . |
| 2 | First we have to know what we want to make . |
| 3 | Fribble , whose eyes were bright and whose whole bearing was alert , wanted to know what they had to do . |
| 4 | I have to know what you propose to tell them . ’ |
| 5 | Contrary to popular belief , you do not have to know what you want to do for the Careers Service to be able to help you . |
| 6 | You have got to know what you want to do , and to go for it . ’ |
| 7 | The trick here is to know what you want to say and make sure that you say it . |
| 8 | The key to good writing is to know what you want to say . |
| 9 | It is important to know what you want to get , and how far you want to go . |
| 10 | the right to know what you need to do to improve |
| 11 | She should have been more concerned , more anxious to know what he had to confide , since he had invited her here for that very purpose . |
| 12 | You say he is clever , clever enough to know what he wants to do and what makes him satisfied . |
| 13 | M. It 's despair at the lack of ( I 'm cheating , I did n't say all these things — but I 'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did ) feeling , of love , of reason in the world . |
| 14 | It caused him to look back in some compunction , in case he had lied to discover what he wanted to know ; but he could find no lies . |
| 15 | What is distinct to us or to church work from the assumptions of central Government where funding might direct us to exclude what we want to do and to be a youth service which would deliver a prescribed curriculum . |
| 16 | Mr Malik had been at pains to exclude what he continued to call ‘ the loonies ’ — that is to say , anyone whose attitude to the practice of his faith was , in the headmaster 's opinion , excessively enthusiastic . |
| 17 | eh , its a free country and you should be able to choose what you want to do yourself er , if something is damaging to your health then I would agree , yes , smoking I do n't agree with smoking but if people want to smoke that 's entirely up to them , they know the risks , I would n't smoke , I know the risks but vegetarianism is purely a matter of choice and there 's no peop people that harp on about you should n't eat meat , get on my nerves |
| 18 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 19 | We acknowledge who we are in his sight , and we open ourselves to receive what he has to tell us . |
| 20 | The principal , who has already forecast that the dispute could place the future of the school and 50 jobs in jeopardy , said he was anxious to have talks with the strikers ‘ to explore what they hope to gain through possible further strike action and for how long they are likely to continue . ’ |
| 21 | Unless users are involved in helping to define what it means to work in an empowering way , in the training which enables this to happen and in other ways in the planning , delivery and evaluation of services , it will be another case of users being ‘ done to ’ by professionals . |
| 22 | He tried to choose his words carefully , but there was no tactful way to phrase what he wanted to say . |
| 23 | But it 's hard to imagine what she did to deserve a fate like this . ’ |
| 24 | Why not use a single consultant to discuss what you want to achieve in the audit , how you can achieve it and how to alter your management systems so that your operations are more environmentally friendly ? |
| 25 | The document clearly helped employers to identify what they hoped to achieve by running such programmes , and sowed the seeds which will eventually culminate in a nationally recognised curriculum in the future . |
| 26 | There is no question , of course , that we make use of relational or " polyadic " predicates of the most diverse types , and that we would be hard put to it to express what we wish to express without them . |
| 27 | Don " t expect the marketplace to buy what you want to deliver . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose you did n't wait to hear what they had to say ? ’ |
| 29 | Rose Hilaire had sat there , still bolt upright , to hear what they had to say . |
| 30 | Er but of course I I must say something about section eleven funding , this whole section under funding , er is er featured in , in , in this section and er , er I 'm not too sure what the Tories are playing at er , unlike Bob I am not going to condemn them out of hand now , being a Democrat I want you to hear what they have to say and then we 'll roast them this afternoon |