Example sentences of "what [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |
| 2 | Most revolutionaries outside the Libyan cities had to operate as Salah did , by persuasion of individuals , knowing them and what may influence them . |
| 3 | I you know how conservative I am with figures and er with advising you as to what may occur I 'm myself relatively confident that erm we shall meet our ticket sales target by the year end and that there will be no as there as there 's been in previous years since er the aforementioned not to be noted er crisis . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , what may encourage them to hold on as long as they can is the apparent split among the ‘ eight elders ’ over the whole question of reform and opposing Leftism . |
| 5 | What may suit you would be folly for him . |
| 6 | Perhaps your very words are what must represent us to posterity . |
| 7 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 8 | Now what should make you very suspicious is a soon as a policeman appears |
| 9 | What should make us tick ? |
| 10 | Marie felt the conversation drifting away from what should concern them most . |
| 11 | ‘ I know what 'll dae me even better . ’ |
| 12 | I think maybe that 's what 'll keep me sane through this whole trip . ’ |
| 13 | For who could tell what might await her at journey 's end ? |
| 14 | Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them . |
| 15 | He stared up at the starlit sky and shivered , not only from the biting cold but his own sombre fear of what might await him . |
| 16 | However , what might affect it is if at the time of the making of the contract the parties make an agreement about delivery and/ or payment , e.g. that they be postponed . |
| 17 | What might have they have had to measure the time as it passed ? |
| 18 | Wha tell you what might save you a journey out there somewhere there 's two automatic vent things |
| 19 | Guessing what might greet her in the canteen , she opted for sandwiches in the laboratory , but because today no one else on the team was prepared to forgo his lunch-hour proper she was on her own until she was interrupted . |
| 20 | What 'd do they do ? |
| 21 | What could stop it ? |
| 22 | But otherwise — if both cars were given equal care — what could distinguish them ? |
| 23 | ‘ But what could take you out , Rose ? ’ |
| 24 | The fears which had crawled back over the stockade of his new self were banished : he was unassailable on the rock of Hause Point — what could harm him but Death which here would be no great enemy ? |
| 25 | Well there were them what could get 'em . |
| 26 | However , this does not mean that they are necessarily wrong in their idea that the Earth may have flipped over , simply that they have n't adequately worked out what could cause it to do so . |
| 27 | Yes , as a as a as a porter or a a a erm what they what used to call them that worked on the line , there was a special name for the li the people that read repaired the lines . |
| 28 | What used to annoy me about that shop was that , that the fact that you know people used to buy the things on the never- never |
| 29 | what used to bother me at one point |
| 30 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |