Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't answer for what happens to the horses there . ’ |
| 2 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 3 | The above pattern may be correct for very slow speech , but we must now look at what happens to the rhythm in normal speech : many English speakers would feel that , although in ‘ twenty places ’ the right-hand foot is the stronger , the word ‘ twenty ’ is stronger than ‘ places ’ in ‘ twenty places further back ’ when spoken in conversational style . |
| 4 | Let us look at what happens in the nuclear family when Mr Patient dies . |
| 5 | Much will depend on what happens between the two rounds of voting . |
| 6 | The rest will depend on what happens in the economy and that , as I say , is a mess . ’ |
| 7 | You will learn about what happens at the birth , and how to look after your baby . |
| 8 | The reason may lie in what happens to the teachers themselves when they first encounter it , rather than in the use they make of it directly with children over a long period . |