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| 3 | In the unpublished manuscript — a cluster of unorganised memories about Christmas ( and , incidentally , like most of his private jottings , more vivid than anything he published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 | The real question is what influences actually produce people who make good and willing technologists at both the professional and skilled levels . |
| 8 | We are not disturbed by slowness , for what goes slow can run deep . |
| 9 | What goes right over high over the Thames . |
| 10 | There is no doubt that this is an interpolation : it conflicts with what goes before , and its inspiration in the legislation of Justinian is evident . |
| 11 | erm We 'll just have to see what goes now this week , but erm I 'm pleased with Foyly . |
| 12 | She 'll be here soon and I still have to decide what to wear today . |
| 13 | Madness , but in this excruciating moment of part-excitement , part-horror the only thing she could think about was her wise choice of what to wear tonight . |
| 14 | Just do n't know what to wear tomorrow . |
| 15 | I 'll do my make-up first , something fairly neutral so I can choose what to wear later . |
| 16 | You can help me decide what to wear so I do n't look like a blob on legs . ’ |
| 17 | This was refused , and next month he handed over what powers still remained to Suharto . |
| 18 | Obviously they had no idea what lay ahead after they had crossed the bridges and got close to the enemy positions . |
| 19 | These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead . |
| 20 | Not knowing what lay ahead made him excited and nervous but he could n't help wanting to discover what was behind a door or round the next corner . |
| 21 | She lowered her hands and gripped the rail of the hog pen , her eyes small but fixed unblinkingly on what lay ahead . |
| 22 | Any sense of importance this might have invoked was quelled by pure funk — in Hoomey 's case , at least — of what lay ahead . |
| 23 | Although equivalent to the distance from Ayr to Portsmouth , the 420 miles on a busy route through a pleasant , well-populated region of flat or slightly undulating land , stippled with woodlands and attractive lakes , was barely a warm-up for what lay ahead . |
| 24 | G.M. Fairbairn ( 'H' , V6427 ) , Sgt. E.B. Inman ( 'J' , V6460 ) , and their crews being lost — a grim indicator of what lay ahead for the anti-shipping units . |
| 25 | Gazing straight ahead , only half-aware of a world outside the claustrophobic comfort of the car , of Massingham 's hands stroking the wheel , the almost soundless changing of the gears , the pattern of traffic lights , he deliberately let his mind slip free of the present and of all the conjecture about what lay ahead , and remembered , by an exercise of mental recall , as if something important depended on his getting it right , every moment of that last meeting with the dead man . |
| 26 | He would by now have left the Bishop , would be crossing the Close to find his car , would know what lay ahead for them both . |
| 27 | Praag had become a living nightmare and a taste of what lay ahead if the Chaos armies conquered the rest of the land . |
| 28 | She says : ‘ I knew I had to keep myself tidy for what lay ahead . ’ |
| 29 | She found herself being slowly torn apart in her loyalties : on the one hand she felt proud to have been chosen as a wife by the head of one of the noblest families in Portugal , and she longed to start her new life ; but on the other , she could not help drawing back instinctively from what lay ahead . |
| 30 | For a week , while the ship was stored and watered and fresh livestock taken aboard , Sara lived in a strange no-man's-land of emotion in which she alternated between boiling excitement at what lay ahead and abject dolours at the thought of leaving Ireland . |