Example sentences of "[Wh det] to do [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Having done this coolly and rationally there is less chance of wasting time between each job on deciding which to do next .
2 Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for .
3 I was now at a bit of a loss as to what to do next , so I wandered upstairs to the room that housed the books covering my subject , just to check up on a few things .
4 ‘ Let's get back into familiar territory , then we can think up what to do next . ’
5 As far as the administration is concerned , the debate over what to do next is governed to a large extent by what the American people say they are prepared to sacrifice to force General Noriega to retire or return to the United States to answer drug trafficking charges .
6 AFTER the euphoria of the day when the Wall came tumbling down , comes the hangover as the Bush Administration tries to work out what to do next in eastern Europe .
7 And now , Marie was n't sure what to do next .
8 We were just wondering what to do next when Elinor came running in waving a letter .
9 Civil disobedience on the Gandhian pattern was still strange to Britain and no one knew exactly what to do next .
10 Then he stood awkwardly beside the box , feeling utterly miserable , not knowing what to do next and so deeply humiliated that his face began to twitch .
11 I reached the last tree and leaned feebly against it , wondering what to do next .
12 We did n't know what to do next . ’
13 I did not know what to do next .
14 As with a number of similar literary-based projects around in Hollywood at a time when mainstream studios were trying to discover what to do next after the demise of musical and religious epics , it was not a success .
15 Marcus still stood looking down , almost as if he were now puzzled and did not know what to do next .
16 But there was a problem about what to do next .
17 One way to think of the development of the worm is to draw an analogy with a digital computer and think of the cells at every cell division making a discrete choice as to what to do next .
18 Nutty hovered on the outskirts of the melee not sure what to do next , all her team being gainfully employed in the argument and her own presence as captain obviously superfluous .
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20 But being aware of that guilt does not answer the question of what to do next .
21 He was by now so ‘ thoroughly out of health ’ that he retired to Scarborough for two months with his family to recuperate and consider what to do next .
22 The Message Line attempts to tell you what to do next , or what has gone wrong , or requests responses , at every stage of editing or using a command .
23 It is a set of simple rules — a program or algorithm — that tells the developing organism what to do next .
24 Rather , it is a matter of carefully showing the learner what to do next .
25 At all stages of the learning process , the learner must either ( a ) know what to do next in order to take his learning a step further , or ( b ) know what sorts of questions need to be asked and answered in order to discover what needs to be done next .
26 He nearly gave up , not knowing what to do next .
27 He did not talk to Ranulf about the problem but listened with half an ear to the young man 's description of his stay at Tynemouth as he wondered what to do next .
28 They all possess a keen sense of humour , fun and imaginative problems , and they never leave you groping in the dark wondering what to do next .
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30 When the controller of a space rocket said recently that the team were going to decide what to do next , he expressed the thought as , ‘ We will evaluate the situation in order to make a determination . ’
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