Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 2 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 3 | Do n't forget that I know exactly what you 're capable of ! ’ |
| 4 | In fact , now that I think over what you just said , I 'm sure he 'll refuse . |
| 5 | It was n't until The Byrds ’ ‘ Untitled ’ double album came out with the liner notes explaining all about the string-bender that I found out what a fool I 'd been … |
| 6 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 7 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 8 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |
| 9 | Incredibly , it was not until she pushed open the kitchen door that she remembered just what day it was and what they were all supposed to be doing . |
| 10 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 11 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 12 | First , be sure that you know exactly what is required , In some questions the statement of the conditions is deliberately written in a complex confusion . |
| 13 | So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them . |
| 14 | It would be a good idea to develop a formula for using this kind of programme so that you know precisely what kind of item you are looking for and , if you can arrange for a regular supply , you do n't need to spend a lot of time viewing it to work out how you are going to use it . |
| 15 | From London we would carry general merchandise back to Rotterdam — Every ship has a ledger to herself , and the manifest for every voyage has to be entered in it , so that you know precisely what the returns from each voyage are . |
| 16 | Even so , at the very least you ought to make sure that you understand fully what you are committing yourself to before deciding whether you can afford not to press for the document to be amended . |
| 17 | It 's only then that you realise just what a dictatorship can be like . ’ |
| 18 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 19 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 20 | By removing these sorts of features — hesitations , false starts , social or regional dialects , idiolect , interference , what people are doing and who they are — sentence linguists would argue that we take away what is incidental and variable in language and leave what is permanent and invariable . |
| 21 | It is well known that we remember best what comes first and what comes last in any period of study or reading . |
| 22 | ‘ With travel or any other service , they should satisfy themselves that they know exactly what they are buying . ’ |
| 23 | With travel or any other service , they should satisfy themselves that they know exactly what they are buying . ’ |
| 24 | The ultimate decision will be taken by the court — and , do n't worry , I shall make very sure that they know precisely what type of person Janice really is . |
| 25 | If we assume that accountants play a passive role in this , namely that they provide only what is expressly requested , then we build our accounting theory on that . |
| 26 | It may well be the case — as some commentators have observed , perhaps unduly cynically — that the economic and political situation in 1979 was such that it mattered little what the government tried to control as long as they showed determination and resolve to control something ; the money supply happened to be both a convenient and a relevant variable at that time . |
| 27 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 28 | The debate on commercial television remains one of the clearest examples of the Establishment in action in defence of one of its dearest illusions , namely , that it knows best what is good for other people . |
| 29 | ‘ If He was n't a God , I do n't see that it matters much what He taught . |
| 30 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |