Example sentences of "and what i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , there are and what I would like to propose to you is this , that you allow me to do these tests on you . |
| 3 | And what I would quite like to do is to see you as you come to the end of the starter pack and I think the starter pack is Oh I ca n't remember how many days treatment is in it . |
| 4 | And what I would do , have you had your Dieside today ? |
| 5 | What I know , and what I would like to tell those who , like me , are involved in the political process , is that we have a responsibility . |
| 6 | Erm and what I would like to do , that paper was written by Mr , erm our research officer and perhaps after I 've made one or two general remarks , he could give you the flavour erm of of of the difference as we as we see , if that would be acceptable to you ? |
| 7 | Can I say first of all that er I support the general approach which has been adopted by Yorkshire County Council and the the other local authorities in the Greater York area , on the way in which they 've formulated their proposals for the York greenbelt after a fairly long erm and exhausting process , the question to which I want to address my comments first of all is whether the new settlement is an appropriate and justified planning response , and what I would like to do if I may is look at some of the reasons that have been raised erm in objection to the new settlement as a strategy , erm these issues have been raised by Hambledon District , York City Council , the C P R E , Montague Evans , in their written submissions to the examination of the . |
| 8 | And what I would like to ask in in this environmental age that we live in , for a benefit to the people on the A sixty one , for a vehicle every four point eight seconds instead of every three point five seconds , using your own figures , how can you justify and quantify the cost of the environmental damage that will be done to what is regarded as the finest visual attractive side of Harrogate . |
| 9 | Patently the present situation is working and therefore that 's part of it and what I would say is that that this additional policy if it is n't necessary because there there is n't any development pressure , then what is its purpose . |
| 10 | We are elected by the public to do a job and we should n't be ashamed of the amount of money that we 're paid for it , and what I would say is , that no manifesto in May 's election said we were going to come here and vote for more money for members , nobody put on their leaflets , vote for me and I will raise members allowances by five percent in the coming year , I did n't and I wo n't support that , and you will argue , perhaps some of you that that 's not really what we 're doing , but it look 's like it , does n't it ? |
| 11 | And what I would like us to do is to be able when we leave here tomorrow , to say that by what we 've learned about one another , and by what we 've actually decided , that we can probably improve what we 're doing by something between five and ten percent . |
| 12 | I 'd rather take that approach , and what I would suggest is that , wherever possible , teachers should think about involving parents in the kinds of difficulties that the child is having in school , and thereby becomes a team effort rather than parents working one direction and perhaps teachers working in another . |
| 13 | I think , I hope we 've pointed out to you the essential differences between what Brian would be looking for as a , as a magazine editor if you like , and what I would be looking for as a , as a news editor . |
| 14 | It 's a contemplative thing and what I would recommend you is go to The Tate and sit in the middle of the Rothgo Room there , which is actually a series of canvasses , as you probably know , of a sort of reddish hue , entirely abstract , and you are surrounded by these in a small , fairly dimly lit room , and spend half an hour there and see perhaps whether they work on you . |
| 15 | I ask that you should pay what I have provided and legated and what I shall provide and legate in codicils . ’ |
| 16 | The matter of the paper is to present those areas of AI ( some would say that is too parochial and what I shall put forward belongs more generally to Computer Science ) where a mechanical analogue of consciousness might be sought in the future , and to argue that they are not the obvious places , and have not been subjected to much philosophical investigation . |
| 17 | That is what I live for , and what I shall die for ! ’ |
| 18 | They they 're summarized here and what I 'll do is we 'll get photocopies off these before team brief . |
| 19 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 20 | Good , okay well let's take some details from you and what I 'll do is I 'll register your details onto our mailing list so that erm , anything that 's coming onto the market you 'll get a phone call on straight away to let you know but also I 'll then check and see what we 've got that might suit your requirements at the moment . |
| 21 | Erm , what we 're gon na do now is look at some number crunching and what I 'll do is give you Pearson 's erm formula for calculating the correlation coefficient . |
| 22 | And what I 'll do is , I 'll not only pack my Christmas presents into that . |
| 23 | erm I think and what I 'll try and do , I 'll try and bring erm , I 've got two on the Thursday and I 'll try and bring them forward to the Monday , cos Monday 's a baker 's day is n't it ? |
| 24 | I chopped up the chicken itself and I put it and what I could rescue of the rice and a bit more rice which was in the cupboard into a frying pan with a stock cube and some water and I sort of poached it all together . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was what worked , what would suit and what I could afford . ’ |
| 26 | Changing from being employed to being self-employed , it 's , it 's a big change that is you and er , and er the union the union helped me and er told me what I could do and what I could n't do and all that sort of thing . |
| 27 | As a complete an utter novice I am seeking a publication that will explain to me in more or less layman 's terms how my computer works and what I should/could be doing with it ! |
| 28 | And what I will do is , they are all presents on Christmas day . |
| 29 | And what I will do is to look erm tt in some detail at er an analysis of a man r called Richard Newstat I mentioned last time , Mr Shirley Williams , and Richard Newstat wrote a book in nineteen sixty called Presidential Power and that book is now in whatever , what it is , I do n't know , seventh or eight edition and it 's probably still the single best selling book on the American presidency and er for good reason because it , it , it raises an , an argument which is really quite simple but often neglected . |
| 30 | I just have to react to what I like and what I can believe in . |