Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb base] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I remember of the housing conditions when I was then residing in Motherwell , a mining er community . |
| 2 | What I remember of that night resembles the memory of a dream : limbs twined round my own , and a loud , throbbing pounding noise that is my heart drumming in my ears , and a huge mouth like a scarlet flower fastened on to my mouth and my neck and my ears , and hands coiling around me and an immense and powerful heat spreading all over my body . |
| 3 | Their efforts , he writes , must be put under close scrutiny : ‘ I do not know Mr Cameron and , from what I hear of him , have no desire to … |
| 4 | ‘ I have no intention of robbing Grantham and Marsh of their triumph if they deserve it , and from what I hear of their reputation they probably will . |
| 5 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know whether you 're one of those who are interested in such things — from what I know of you I 'd say probably not . |
| 7 | Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s . |
| 8 | What I know of Moscow is that you keep your nose clean and do the work you 've set out to achieve , and that way there 's no hassle . |
| 9 | Erm it it does n't er er a from what I know of the the Swindon one , five thousand pounds seems very fair . |
| 10 | " From what I know of the previous accounts the Winter Marsh investment — or error of judgment — is one of the main causes of the group 's present financial difficulties . " |
| 11 | I imagine , from what I know of life in Bom Jesus , that she probably thought of herself as fraca ( physically weak ) or fraca de juízo ( mentally weak ) and prone to ataque de nervos ( nervous attacks ) . |
| 12 | ‘ That just does n't tie in with what I know of you , the way you feel about your mother and your brothers . ’ |
| 13 | From what I know of gipsies she 'd never make an official complaint even if we caught up with her . |
| 14 | ‘ What I know of it , Herr Wolff-Dietrich . |
| 15 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 16 | Erm I think that those are erm er disadvantages with which any er possible location in Harrogate er District would start and I do n't think the assessment in Mr 's paper er accurately reflects either the criterion in the structure plan er in terms of assimilation , or indeed the nature of the landscape erm and what I know of it in the Harrogate District . |
| 17 | Well this is what I know of her but if you really have to Well I 'm no Granny ! |
| 18 | Very , very practical that 's what I find of her , she 'll say oh and I 'm hoping |
| 19 | I have never liked any form of ‘ mystique ’ in therapy and always take great care to explain to my patients precisely what I am going to do , what I expect of them and what they are likely to experience . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're desperate for a win and the players have been left in no doubt what I expect of them , ’ said Laughton . |
| 21 | John Pullen , of London Zoo , said : ‘ There 's no way a chimp could understand which company to go for , it has to be complete luck — but then what I understand of trading in that way sounds like complete luck half the time . ’ |
| 22 | At Riverside Studios during the interval of a play in Russian , I was chatting about anything other than the play to the Guardian 's critic , Michael Billington , when Mark Dignam approached Billington and , most courteously and with a touch of a bow , said : ‘ Mr Billington , I look forward to reading you tomorrow and seeing what I think of the play . ’ |
| 23 | What I think of all this will have to await the publication of my book . ’ |
| 24 | I say he because that is what I think of , though it could be they or even she . |
| 25 | In summary : ‘ I explain what I think of your performance but after that it 's up to you to respond and I 'll listen constructively . ’ |
| 26 | That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And we all know what I think of big Paul . ’ |
| 28 | The second CD is given over in the main to what I think of as Mark Goodier bands ( not a breath of criticism implicit in that , by the way ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I think of this so-called special relationship . |
| 30 | But what I think of them I must say in my own way . ’ |