Example sentences of "what you [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to John Graham , who knew Glasgow well , Sim was ‘ the only man of our town 's set of lawyers that he can think proper to trust it with , ye know the naturall temper of those lawyers of a low class is to be sharpers , and that s what ye would avoid … ’ |
| 2 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't what you might think . |
| 4 | It would n't be what you might think of as being on metre , and so you really had to listen and be real careful , because John Lee was gon na play his stuff and you better fit into it because he was n't gon na fit in with you ! |
| 5 | So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities . |
| 6 | And I 'm fairly canny about my career , despite what you might think . |
| 7 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 8 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I suppose we had better get on , although I 'd much rather stay here and hear what you 've been doing , and I would be interested , in spite of what you might think . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ No , in spite of what you might think . |
| 11 | Plenty of different people cheap , er , the other people who have different likes to you , but what , what you might think 's attrac attractive , somebody else 'll |
| 12 | Breaking the connections in an untrained network produces what you might expect : nonsense . |
| 13 | Who knows what you might meet in the night . |
| 14 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 15 | An example of what you might study in obtaining a CAM diploma in PR for Commercial Organizations : |
| 16 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 17 | If you are unsure of what you might change or there is clearly no one correct answer then place the emphasis on doing nothing until you are thoroughly familiar with the set up . |
| 18 | That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’ |
| 19 | Four of them are in cities of what you might regard as being of particular interest — Tripoli , Beirut , Damascus and Baghdad . ’ |
| 20 | What you might do , although I say you 'd reject this particular model and that |
| 21 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 22 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 23 | It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience . |
| 24 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 25 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |
| 27 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 28 | There were only four fights , proper fights , that is , one house burned — and that was an accident that Ewan apologised for most handsomely next day — nobody killed , and just six men what you might call damaged . |
| 29 | They seem to run the gamut from what you might call the ‘ tabloid television ’ of Top of the Pops and The Hit Man and Her , via the ‘ serious ’ ‘ quality ’ programmes like Rock Steady or Big World Café , to the more lefty ‘ alternative ’ programmes , of which The Tube was the prototype , like Channel 4 's Club X . |
| 30 | K. M. Bribes were n't what you might call rife . |