Example sentences of "and what [pron] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wish fulfilments as we know , and what we saw about dreams and so on , so the pleasure principle that reigns in the unconscious . |
| 2 | The writer works at the impossible task of creating a poem , a narrative , which tries to narrow the gap between the signal and what is signalled : tries to reverse the separation between the world and what we write about the world . |
| 3 | So the two levels he proposes are what we do and what we feel about what we do . |
| 4 | And what we learn about them . |
| 5 | ‘ With her background it 'll be referred to Special Branch and Five … and that fiddled telephone … and Praeger without any background — we should have left his wallet , but they 'll trace something about him anyway — and then we can admit we went to see her — once — and what we talked about and there we are . ’ |
| 6 | The first omission was regarded by some of his ministerial colleagues as an eccentricity bordering on the provocative , especially after the injunctions from Michael Heseltine and Sir Geoffrey Howe to take more seriously the balance of payments figures and what they said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |
| 7 | Remember your notes , Fran , and what they said about us being so perfectly compatible . |
| 8 | Yeah you write the , sort of , how long it took to do it and if it was if there was more one and what they said about it an |
| 9 | You need to know who they have been to see , what advice they have already tried and what they thought about it . |
| 10 | Er , it 's been coming in gradually over the years , but there 's been an awful lot of , of er , resistance by some manufacturers on what they say on their labels , and what they say about what they 're selling us , and er , if they 're gon na do this , and I 'm getting a , a slight suspicion , and I think Mr is , that , that it 's got to be done eventually , and we , we have to be able , as a buying public , to understand exactly what we 're buying before we actually get it home . |
| 11 | Tarantino catches the way men relate to each other , how they talk and what they talk about , but pushes their banter to a blackly comic self-destructive conclusion . |
| 12 | ‘ I really want to know more about girls and what they feel about sex and love . |
| 13 | This more general knowledge concerns both what the speaker or listener may know about the discourse topic , and what he/she knows about conventions which are normally followed in speaking and writing . |
| 14 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 15 | Me dad told us all about you , and what you said about Big Norm , Sniffer , Uncle Billy , an' that back in t' seventies . |
| 16 | And what you said about mortgaging a school , how can a school mortgage it 's school premises if we 've already mortgaged it , with our eighty-five million borrowing , we 've already got half the schools in this county on a mortgage anyway . |
| 17 | And what you like about yourself and what you do n't like about yourself . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've wondered about the implications of the placing of the head in the font , ’ Theodora said thoughtfully , ‘ and what you say about the possibility of its being a symbolic gesture . |
| 19 | Where you have them , who comes , what you wear , what you do , what it costs , and what you think about it later . |
| 20 | In free association what you think about your thoughts and what you think about your thoughts . |
| 21 | A lot of them concerned the Arsenal team and what I thought about them . ’ |
| 22 | And what I like about it — no . ’ |
| 23 | Erm , and what I said about the erm |
| 24 | Both he and Mr Heseltine warned against making light of the huge trade deficit and what it said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |