Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | much do you want on that if you see what I mean to describe about dreams that |
| 2 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 3 | What I mean to say is … |
| 4 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 5 | ‘ What I mean to say , ’ replied Robert , ‘ is that I feel I need to know where I stand . ’ |
| 6 | What I mean to say it 's not very , it could be appreciated if they about it , but we just er left to do it and then tell him afterwards the bits . |
| 7 | Oh yes I know what I mean to say is |
| 8 | what , what , what I got to watch you do it , careful , |
| 9 | If I end up back there , she might just be interested enough in what I got to say to do some investigating of her own . ’ |
| 10 | Is that what I got to tape ? |
| 11 | What I wish to argue here is that far more could be gained from a serious study of others ' methods and findings . |
| 12 | Now , what I wish to ask in this book is whether this way of thinking about Britain 's decline is useful and accurate . |
| 13 | Now , what I wish to ask in this book is whether this way of thinking about Britain 's decline is useful and accurate . |
| 14 | My Lord there is a final part of our submission on on this is because I do n't know whether your Lordship has a copy of the report this is the report of the fact that My Lord erm what I wish to refer you to if I may , is erm that paragraph three one of the report which is erm that solicitors and er he instructed himself er from the law society who told him that the law society in paragraph three page five , do n't issue any specific directional guidance duty of care in relation to the plaintiffs transaction , the Law Society view obligation to be have to be considered on the basis of and he then goes on from there to depart from that approach to speculate as to what his approach would be erm |
| 15 | What I wish to discuss then is the contention of some in recent years that ‘ Jesus was a feminist ’ . |
| 16 | What I wish to propose is that for this poor and hungry population many of the physiological symptoms of which they complain are also symptoms of chronic hunger . |
| 17 | What I wish to indicate here is the complex issues involved in establishing what to call historical events . |
| 18 | What I wish to indicate here is that a new emphasis on a text 's negotiation with history does not allow us to reduce literary texts to the status of documents , writing which only exemplifies the preoccupations of certain periods past and present . |
| 19 | What I wish to suggest is that filling the structural lacuna makes structured talk without higher-order thought look much less likely . |
| 20 | Watch me and wonder what would have happened if I had n't sent you away last night , if I 'd done what I longed to do , if I 'd let you make love to me … |
| 21 | What I hope to do from now on is to offer constructive suggestions as to how we might go forward . |
| 22 | In my last article in the magazine I told you all about my trip to Saudi Arabia , but I did n't tell you why I went or what I hope to do next . |
| 23 | What I hope to do is simply to share with you the life of Idigo and in experiences and to walk alongside him and also to help us reflectively to look and examine our own journey where are we with God ? |
| 24 | I promised members after that erm meeting that er I would bring forward different arguments tonight and that is exactly what I hope to do . |
| 25 | Such is the burden of what I hope to argue in the next chapters . |
| 26 | This is in part what I hope to provide here in respect of certain current theoretical perspectives and pedagogic approaches . |
| 27 | What I hope to gain on the course is to be able to speak more confidently and to get over the nerves . |
| 28 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 29 | ‘ I know , ’ I said , ‘ that he wants what I have , and also what I hope to have one day . ’ |
| 30 | What I hope to have shown in this article is that the use of discourse analysis and pragmatics to reveal significant areas of Anderson 's character proves very successful in explaining more precisely how Anderson 's vagueness , loquacity , urbanity and pomposity are evinced in his linguistic performance . |