Example sentences of "[verb] what [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you look beneath the carriage , you can see that it has what looks like a shortened needle . |
| 2 | AMT 's Accel-123 dot matrix printer has what looks like an embryonic serial part protruding from the back . |
| 3 | The fish has what amounts to a tiny voltmeter monitoring the voltage at each " porthole " . |
| 4 | This process of abstraction is intended to focus on those elements which are the most important in explaining what happens in the real world . |
| 5 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |
| 6 | When confronted with a small garden for the first time , its often difficult to know what to do for the best . |
| 7 | We — that is you and 1 — as well as the Yek , ought to know what lies beyond the Great Sea . |
| 8 | The tree itself is beautiful but the combination of the clay soil and the shade from the tree means its not easy to know what to grow in the west-facing border underneath . |
| 9 | She took the covering from one of the nearer pieces , revealing what looked like an old-fashioned letterpress . |
| 10 | Here we talk to former teachers , old friends and relatives in a special TODAY investigation to discover what lies inside the tortured soul of Sinead . |
| 11 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 12 | The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book . |
| 13 | ‘ You would find enterprise agencies did not know what to do with a disabled person they would refer them elsewhere and lose the problem . ’ |
| 14 | They do n't know what to do with a real nome . |
| 15 | Having released a highly successful book of Russian posters the renowned publisher Aurora , which publishes books for export , does not know what to do with the rich reserve of editorial material it has accumulated over recent years , and it has been forced to sell transparencies and texts . |
| 16 | You know , we do n't know what to do with the bloody bit . |
| 17 | She does n't know what to do with the used one . |
| 18 | I do n't know what to do for the best . |
| 19 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 20 | She did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 21 | She 'll know what to do for the best . ’ |
| 22 | But even you do n't know what to do about the third , do you ? |
| 23 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 24 | He would n't know what to do in the outside world . |
| 25 | We are equally ready to project this highly idealized picture of ourselves onto our own past and do not know what to make of the weird mystical ‘ fantasies ’ in which our ancestors seem to have indulged . |
| 26 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 27 | One wonders what became of the dispossessed . |
| 28 | There is a concerted desire to destroy what remains of the referential illusion : what seems ‘ real ’ is immediately transformed into another representation in the form of a painting , a postcard or a film . |
| 29 | The small meadow in which the Brownies met was dotted with clumps of bushes and young trees , and most other parts of Longreen Park were wooded , so it could be understood why a pilot should choose what looked like a clear open green space to land his plane on . |
| 30 | It does not matter what happens to the public reputation of John Donne . |