Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's inconceivable that Andrew did n't eventually know what was going on . |
| 2 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |
| 3 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 4 | Would you rather know what 's happened or what 's happening ? |
| 5 | Erlich said , ‘ I 'd rather know what you 've got for me . ’ |
| 6 | In principle , a planning authority can only grant what is actually applied for or a part of it . |
| 7 | You 'd better make what preparations you need , Dubois . |
| 8 | ‘ Edward of England will only eat what he can digest ! ’ |
| 9 | You can only experience what he did by living as people do . |
| 10 | ‘ Where an unconstitutional change of regime takes place in a recognised state , governments of other states must necessarily consider what dealings , if any , they should have with the new regime , and whether and to what extent it qualifies to be treated as the government of the state concerned . |
| 11 | Meanwhile we should perhaps consider what state we would be in , were we to agree that the sceptic 's argument is effective . |
| 12 | If Wullie Robertson was not to her liking he would soon enough know what he could do with his bloody trumpet . |
| 13 | All of the other theories to be discussed here can only describe what has happened ; they have no real conception of what the motive force of power or change is in society over time other than to rely on describing the eclectic , indeterminate behaviour of subjective and free individuals . |
| 14 | Words like " explain " , " justify " and " assess " are used to focus your attention on causation and evidence ; you should not only describe what you have read but also offer an analysis of why you take the view of it you do . |
| 15 | Sweeting also confirmed that the Miss Johnson story originated from his aunt who , as he wittily put it , ‘ could only know what was told her ! ’ |
| 16 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 17 | In order to draft effectively , and to make intelligent use of precedents , the drafter must not only know what to say but why it is necessary to say it , how to say it , and what will be the result of saying it differently . |
| 18 | It 's like if you had a doctor testing some aboriginal tribe for blood types — they would n't necessarily know what he was doing . ’ |
| 19 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 20 | He would n't necessarily know what was actually in all the crates . |
| 21 | One problem is that we do not necessarily know what a particular wavefunction looks like , and it is here that the LCAO approach to the construction of molecular orbitals is very useful . |
| 22 | Such reports should not only discuss what problems might have emerged , and their time and cost implications , but also attempt to anticipate any subsequent difficulties to offer advance warning of any requests for supplementary expenditure . |
| 23 | So Illyria we should all know what Illyria is . |
| 24 | ‘ It will greatly assist what we are trying to aim for in the development of the game in all quarters of the county . ’ |
| 25 | But Sam can apparently do what the hell he likes , with as many women as he pleases ! ’ |
| 26 | This particular section 's taken some slices already , so we 'd better watch what we say to them . |
| 27 | WACC 's Forum Programme can only monitor what is happening in information technology , relying usually on secondary sources . |
| 28 | Well it does n't much matter whatever it is . |
| 29 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 30 | I like , before coming to a decision , to get the arguments down on paper and it seems to me if you ca n't then convince yourself or anybody else that what you propose is logically right , it does n't much matter what your gut 's doing . |