Example sentences of "earth [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What On earth got you to go ? ’ |
| 2 | What on earth made him use this appalling Americanism , he wondered . |
| 3 | But what on earth made her compare them ? |
| 4 | What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ? |
| 5 | ‘ And what on earth made you do it ? ’ |
| 6 | Then she asked , ‘ What on earth made you go down to the beach ? |
| 7 | But what on earth made you think there were two of them ? |
| 8 | ‘ What on earth made you take the cloth , anyway ? ’ said Reginald as he squatted down at Elaine 's side . |
| 9 | ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw . |
| 10 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 11 | How on earth d' you remember that , prick them out ? |
| 12 | ‘ What on earth d' you use them for ? |
| 13 | What on earth has he got in his pockets ? " |
| 14 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 15 | ‘ What on earth has it got to do with the children ? ’ |
| 16 | Where on earth has she gone , Clyde ? ’ |
| 17 | They 'll promise you the earth to get you to come across , then treat you like dirt once they 've satisfied their maternal cravings . |
| 18 | ‘ What on earth possessed you to go down to the sea ? ’ asked Mrs Ridley . |
| 19 | I recall one of his demands was : " What on earth possessed you to leave the aircraft here ? " |
| 20 | ‘ What on earth possessed you to get involved with Jem Higgins ? |
| 21 | Now if there is no problem why on earth do we have to put that sort of that sort of work by officers erm , in , in to action erm , so between the , if I understand Labour 's position now Chairman , between the twenty fifth of August and the twenty eighth of September , we have now gone from accepting the problem and seeing how we can solve a number problem to saying that there is no no number problem and that everyone is cooking the books . |
| 22 | What we ha If we do n't support them during that period , how on earth do we get them to be two years old ? |
| 23 | What on earth do they see in one another ? |
| 24 | ‘ I hear people passing and saying ‘ How on earth do they allow a porch to be built on top of the pavement ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ How on earth do they know ? ’ |
| 26 | " What on earth do you talk about ? " |
| 27 | So , instead , she said , ‘ If all you do is fight with him , why on earth do you go on working for him ? ’ |
| 28 | Well how on earth do you start spot checking on a hundred and twenty eight thousand companies you know , the first nine hundred and ninety five that you do may be the ones that are running perfectly . |
| 29 | How on earth do you manage ? " |
| 30 | " What on earth do you make of it all ? " |