pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (just) what/who you are looking for
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‘Salubrious’! That’s just the word I was looking for.
the best/greatest etc that/who ever lived (= the best, greatest etc who has been alive at any time )
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He’s probably the best journalist who ever lived.
what/how/who etc the fuck
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What the fuck do you think you’re doing?
where/how/who etc the heck
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Where the heck are we?
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
who were...trying to kid
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We thought we could change the world. Just who were we trying to kid ?
who/what/why etc do you suppose ... ?
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Who on earth do you suppose could have done this?
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How do you suppose he got here?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Heaven/God/who/goodness knows!
guess what/you'll never guess who/what etc
he who pays the piper calls the tune
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Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
look who's here!
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Well, look who's here! It's Jill and Paul!
look who's talking,
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"You need to get more exercise." "Look who's talking !"
show (sb) who's boss
the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
the one(s) who/that
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But in that case Robert was the one who should have stayed.
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He wanted to be the one who did the organizing and made the improvements.
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I'd said the right thing and she'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques.
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I was the one who had to take it to my tutor, not them.
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Maggie had never been to the big barn before, the one that had looked so imposing from the air.
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Of all the proposals, the one that you made is the silliest. 3.
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Often, the one who brought it home had soon lost interest in his acquisition.
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She's the one who ought to be got rid of.
those who
what should I see but sth/who should appear but sb etc
what the blazes/who the blazes etc
what/how/where/who in God's name
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What in God's name is that noise?
what/who/where the dickens ...?
what/who/why etc the devil?
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Now what the devil was he to do?
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So who the devil are these two engaging, literate, drug-free chatterers sitting down the pub?
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What the devil are you getting at?
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What the devil does he want?
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What the devil have you been doing to yourself?
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What the devil was he talking about?
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Why the devil do you think I came haring over here?
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Why the devil was she so stubborn?
who can say?
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It's unlikely that we'll find anything of value there. Still, who can say ?
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And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words?
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Anyone who can say so clearly just what Derrida is saying, or doing, immediately puts the reader in his debt.
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Beyond that, who can say ?
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But where such stories originated, who can say .
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Once the traffic starts to move, who can say what beauty and what truth such people may not bring us?
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We're the only ones who can say that and know it's true.
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Whether this is ultimately a good or a bad thing, who can say ?
who cares?
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Am I the only one, he asked himself, who cares anything for Durkin?
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Because with so much money, who cares ?
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Butterflies - who cares ? also has its first showing at Kelvingrove - and will run until 20 June.
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It is an issue for anyone who cares for the sanctity of human life.
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The cisterns run empty by July if we're lucky, and who cares ?
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The point is that every teacher who cares about being a fine teacher has an identification with these principles.
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Who cares if some 19,000 voters in Palm Beach County were effectively disenfranchised?
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Who cares ? the President replied.
who needs it/them?
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Emergency care would be covered for everyone who needs it, as required by law now.
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If make-up is not wearable, who needs it?
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Men, she thought; who needs them?
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Underwood and Carling's tissue types will be stored on computer until they can be matched up with somebody who needs them.
who says?
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Who says Tommy and I are still going out?
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I know another guide who says she has a different umbrella for every outfit she owns.
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Pike, who says his legal past is irrelevant to the business venture, has been reluctant to surrender full control.
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She is young but not so young as Chela, who says she is 18 but looks 16 at the most.
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This is also the same guys who says so Peter works graveyard shift, huh?
who shall remain nameless
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My Lover For I will consider my lover, who shall remain nameless .
who wants ...?
who would have dreamt that ...?
who would have thought?
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But who would have thought that a humble human could do these calculations?
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That's the only bait I didn't have but, who would have thought that with ice about?
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The girl was carrying a latchkey; she let herself into the cabin. ... who would have thought of that?
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Yet who would have thought I would talk to myself in this way in these notes? he wrote.
who's counting?
who/what etc do you think?
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But what do you think my parents would think if I were to become involved with you?
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Cleaving to the bosom of my grieving family? What do you think they're doing?
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If I have a son, I think I shall send him. What do you think?
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Lady: What do you think is the most important aspect of herself a woman should preserve as she grows older?
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Let's see how you rate in that area. What do you think we go in for, here in Perugia?
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Q: Speaking of which, what do you think of Frank Gifford?
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What do you think of your manager? What do you think of our personnel policies and how they're working?
why/how/who etc indeed?
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Actually science depends upon expert witnesses who indeed are not infallible.
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And why indeed should gamesmanship not exist in disabled sport when it is rife everywhere else?
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Meant especially for Prior Robert, I should hazard, who indeed thinks he chose her and ranks as her proprietor.
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The community service that is most interesting is by those who indeed are intellectually productive.
you know who/what
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Who wants another beer?
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Who was that on the phone?
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Oh, now I know who he is!
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Ron, who usually doesn't drink alcohol, had two beers.
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The talk was given by a man who used to live in Russia.