Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Could anyone ever knock any sense into this thick skull , and make me see what kind of a man I 'm stuck with ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ianthe had gone into a kind of day dream and found herself wondering what John did in the evenings . |
| 10 | Her handwriting was distinctly visible so I rewound the film and stopped it to see what she had written . |
| 11 | She said a ee and d' ya know what , I did n't have a student . |
| 12 | And d' you remember what else you put in the letter ? |
| 13 | And d' you know what ? |
| 14 | And d' you know what I think , Ruthie ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And d' you know what ? |
| 16 | Combining the benefits of a budget account with a borrowing facility , the Revolving Budget Account helps to tackle unexpected bills and allows you to buy what you want when you want it without having to set up further loan arrangements . |
| 17 | If we understand a horse 's emotions we are more likely to succeed in getting it to do what we want , and prevent it doing what we do n't want . |
| 18 | For example , set your marketing manager the target of getting some positive publicity and let him control what he says to the press . |
| 19 | So after that I just lay there and let him do what he wanted and he would complain about that too . |
| 20 | You have got to keep the analysts and the institutions on your side and let them know what you 're proposing . |
| 21 | Let her parents know about her movements when she goes out at night ; she will tell them where she is and with whom , and let them know what time she 'll be home . |
| 22 | Well , Right love we 'll inform you know we just phone up and let them know what 's happened . |
| 23 | Erm if you want to er to make your voice heard about it then write them letters write letters into your councillors erm and er and let them know what you think or you can write them to me and I 'll pass them on . |
| 24 | Erm more calls than we could cope with in the end for and er see what happens to it and keep in touch write to your councillors and let them know what you think or write to me and I 'll pass the letters on . |
| 25 | I think we 'd have to ring them up and let them know what we 're doing . |
| 26 | Well I do I do n't know really but er certainly I I probably discuss work a lot more with my wife now than before , and let her know what 's get going on there . |
| 27 | And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter , about expensively dressed girls . |
| 28 | ‘ When you are , see Jack Cornelius — and let me know what you learn about Dr Kingdom . |
| 29 | Please would you investigate this problem and let me know what action you take to resolve it . |
| 30 | you want to cut a piece off and let me see what it 's like |