Example sentences of "[to-vb] what i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was hard put to know what I thought about our guests — I mean since , as well as then . |
| 2 | ‘ Then he wanted to know what I thought of young Hilary , ’ said Tom . |
| 3 | Do you want to know what I done at school today ? |
| 4 | I would like to know what I get for that . |
| 5 | " 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 " . |
| 6 | Do you want to know what I look like ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And who 's to know what I do to you out here in the middle of nowhere ? ’ |
| 8 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 9 | It is against this background therefore that I would like to state what I see as the relevance of Christianity to political economy . |
| 10 | Why ca n't I seem to remember what I saw before when I looked at these things … |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | His son James said : ‘ I ca n't find words to express what I feel about the people who did this . |
| 13 | I find it difficult to put what I saw into words . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ I simply tried to do what I observed in my career in the straight theatre with some of the finest directors , particularly Peter Brook . |
| 16 | If they only want me to stay for a year then I 'm entitled to do what I want under freedom of contract . |
| 17 | Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage . |
| 18 | I mean sometimes do it very cleverly but what I 'm saying is I want to illustrate what I meant by the words never used message . |
| 19 | You may think that instead of increasing my catch I would have had to share what I caught with a companion . |
| 20 | Alfred did not seem to understand what I said to him . |
| 21 | I do n't need to tell you to keep what I said to yourself , of course . ’ |
| 22 | The kind of woman I 'm interested in is adult enough to recognise what I want from the outset . |
| 23 | Simultaneously the Mercure de France published in its October issues the letters of-Cézanne to Emile Bernard , including the letter which contains the passage : ‘ Allow me to repeat what I said to you here : deal with nature in terms of the cylinder , the sphere , the cone , all seen in perspective , so that each side of an object or plane is directed towards a central point . |
| 24 | I venture to repeat what I said in Powell v McFarlane ( 1977 ) 38 P & CR 452 at 470 – 1 : " Factual possession signifies an appropriate degree of physical control . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In a sense this may be thought to contradict what I said in chapter 1 , where the emphasis was on the evident synchroneity of particular deposits , particularly carbonates . |
| 27 | I have to decide what I mean by ‘ working-class ’ , and then I have to choose an ‘ indicator ’ of this concept . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Just a means to get what I want with the least amount of trouble . ’ |
| 30 | The behaviours I will use to get what I want from Bill |