Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 They often do this by letting out or bringing in their mooring line , so keep an eye on them to see which direction they move it in , if at all .
2 Go through them to see which might be relevant to your own situation .
3 He was watching them to see which way they would go .
4 I would have loved to touch them to see what they felt like but I could see out of the corner of my eye that I was being watched .
5 Fact is , I do n't want them to see what 's going on in the next few hours .
6 Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests .
7 Then , the mist dissipates to allow them to see what is below .
8 I tried to explain earlier about not being able to relax with people I liked , not being able to get them to see what virtues I had .
9 At the same time she watched them to see what they did .
10 That at the very least gives me the opportunity er to at very least glance through , I do n't know how long they 're going to be of course , but at very least glance through them to see what I need to see , to see if there 's any which is self-evidently requiring further comment , or further site visit , and er I can then give the Councils a further two weeks in which to respond to that .
11 I have seen enough to believe that the materials , over time , will prove to be of real help to teachers trying to solve their own problems by enabling them to see what support there is in the sharing of difficulties and by strengthening the belief that efficient discussion can lead to effective action .
12 Help them to see what they 're made of .
13 Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives .
14 Meal times were silent : everyone at the table in time for grace to be said ; everyone eating what was set before him .
15 ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’
16 Whenever I did succeed in preparing a family meal , I insisted that everyone eat whatever was placed on her/his plate .
17 Tilda did n't seem to , but no-one understands what she thinks except Martha . "
18 Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him .
19 else , let me think what else
20 was that the one where hang on let me think what it was , there 's some , there 's a it was , at Oxford College were n't it and one of them was trying to be a like high up in the church or something
21 He was too far away from me to see what he was catching on .
22 I looked behind me to see what appeared to be a solid forest of standing Tory MPs from county constituencies anxious to ask questions about their own particular rail lines .
23 ‘ I think they 've been watching me to see what I eat .
24 But I got a distinct impression he did n't want me to see what he was writing .
25 She hoots and is about to say something , but she holds off in front of Darius and squints at me to see what I mean .
26 The only enjoyable memory that I have is that of the instructor , a tall man with dark hair and a quiet nature vault a large gate in one bound and coming sprinting towards me to see what was the matter .
27 At the beginning of Lent , Miss White approached me to see what she should do about the appeal
28 Everyone understands what is to be done .
29 I can say " This is a cherry " and everyone understands what I mean , but I can not very well say " This is an offspring " without committing a grammatical impropriety , except perhaps as a contextually forgivable elipsis when it is already clear whose offspring is being talked about .
30 3 Everyone understands what is going on .
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