Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |
| 2 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 3 | Lastly , many scientists believe that an MD is a waste of time while a PhD is what everyone should do ; most of these people are out of touch with the real world . |
| 4 | She has to have the money , though , because goodness knows what her rent will be , and Rose Macaulay says she will not pay a penny more but Rose will do exactly what everyone will have to do and pay what she is told . |
| 5 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 6 | It 's the logical thing to do , now ; it 's what I ought to do . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not doing what I ought to do , ’ he kept saying to himself . |
| 8 | I am not doing what I ought to do . |
| 9 | He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't … |
| 10 | I 'm not quite sure what I ought to tell you yet . |
| 11 | Until she said in front of the Rembrandt , ‘ Do n't you think he got the teeniest bit bored halfway through — I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel . |
| 12 | I strolled on ( binoculars always at the ready , afraid of what I might miss ) as far as the Wire Dump Heligoland trap . |
| 13 | ‘ Who knows what I might do one day ! ’ |
| 14 | But I like learning new things and seeing new places , so one day who knows what I might do ! ’ |
| 15 | Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them . |
| 16 | What I might do is steal credit cards and use them . |
| 17 | I went through cookbooks to see what I might do with it . |
| 18 | I told myself it was because you disgusted me , but really I was afraid of what I might do and say . |
| 19 | Erm , I never had any idea as to what I might do when I left school , in fact erm , apart from basket making and er one or two manual skills of that sort erm , there was n't much available . |
| 20 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 21 | You did n't know what I might do and , in the same situation , I 'd have been fearful . ’ |
| 22 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 23 | I tell you what I might do tomorrow . |
| 24 | Well what I might do is just put one soap in each cos it |
| 25 | What I might do is go back to Marks . |
| 26 | we can always ask to put them away for a week yeah that 's what I might do |
| 27 | But I think possibly what I might do is try and make this grape vine one the first one where we actually do do it properly . |
| 28 | I have a look to see what I might wear today . |
| 29 | Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem ? |
| 30 | The first was what I might call her physical candour . |