Example sentences of "[verb] what [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process of abstraction is intended to focus on those elements which are the most important in explaining what happens in the real world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When confronted with a small garden for the first time , its often difficult to know what to do for the best . |
| 4 | We — that is you and 1 — as well as the Yek , ought to know what lies beyond the Great Sea . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You know , we do n't know what to do with the bloody bit . |
| 10 | She does n't know what to do with the used one . |
| 11 | I do n't know what to do for the best . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 14 | She 'll know what to do for the best . ’ |
| 15 | But even you do n't know what to do about the third , do you ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He would n't know what to do in the outside world . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | One wonders what became of the dispossessed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It does not matter what happens to the public reputation of John Donne . |
| 23 | Deciding what to do with the Arab volunteers is hard for Pakistan , which is under pressure from other Islamic governments , and from America , to eject them . |
| 24 | I 'm sure the win will do wonders for the team 's confidence , but let's see what happens for the next 5 games at least before we make rash predictions . |
| 25 | ‘ We will see what happens in the next 24 hours . |
| 26 | He decided to wait and see what happened in the other rehearsals . |
| 27 | The table overleaf shows what happens under the new ( and reducing ) capital allowances : |
| 28 | The second picture showed what remained of the wrecked car in Prague , the car which had belonged to Ladislav Sacher . |
| 29 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |
| 30 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |