Example sentences of "what [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry at once launched destructive raids into Scotland in what became wryly known as the ‘ Rough Wooing ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ What became quickly apparent then was that the common factor was Beverley . ’ |
| 3 | In the unpublished manuscript — a cluster of unorganised memories about Christmas ( and , incidentally , like most of his private jottings , more vivid than anything he published ) — he describes what became more and more the norm . |
| 4 | Improved versions of what became more generally known as the patent still are widely used in the making of grain whisky , gin , and other potable and industrial spirits . |
| 5 | Such men found themselves , however , fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action . |
| 6 | What impresses more about this Nissan is its handling ability . |
| 7 | A House of Commons Select Committee found that local authorities had a considerable amount of discretion over what to include in or exclude from the secular curriculum . |
| 8 | The real question is what influences actually produce people who make good and willing technologists at both the professional and skilled levels . |
| 9 | What goes around comes around . |
| 10 | Things are not all bad and what goes around has come around and bowled me right over . |
| 11 | And it is very stupid for anyone in any position of power to think that what goes around does not come around . ’ |
| 12 | What goes around comes around |
| 13 | What goes around comes around . |
| 14 | I believe what goes around comes around , and our day will come . |
| 15 | Customers may find it more difficult to locate their favourite magazine , as money , rather than popularity , influences what goes where . |
| 16 | Basically , what goes where ? ! ? |
| 17 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 18 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 19 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 20 | Of course he is incompetent , and as well as being swept along in the muddle and uproar he shares ‘ our town 's ’ positive transpersonal complicities in what goes on here . |
| 21 | In this context , what goes on outside , what is actually written by poets and novelists , is of minor interest . |
| 22 | I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes . |
| 23 | According to Alistair Kelman , however , many companies do not even comply with the Companies Act by keeping detailed records of what goes on in their computer systems . |
| 24 | For example , what goes on when looking at , say , a Matisse in an art gallery . |
| 25 | Theatres and concert halls can be beautiful and stirring places , quite apart from what goes on in them . |
| 26 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 27 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |
| 28 | Mexico apart ( and for domestic reasons no American government can ignore Mexico ) , the administration is not much bothered with what goes on in Latin America . |
| 29 | But what goes on between God and the individual is not always taken notice of by society at large . |
| 30 | I have a right to know what goes on behind my back . ’ |