Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treasury Bench has heard what the hon. Gentleman said . |
| 2 | Once it has decided what the text is ‘ about ’ , it queries each apparently new or discordant topic or action , and amends its database from the writer 's response . |
| 3 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
| 4 | But the influx of outsiders with a vision of the wine they wanted to create has shown what the region can do . |
| 5 | Second , asking questions establishes whether the buyer has understood what the salesperson has said . |
| 6 | This being so , we could say that the bistable has remembered what the input states were — it has the memory whereas a simple gate has not . |
| 7 | The court approaches the question by looking at the wording of the contract and whether the expert 's work has followed what the parties had agreed . |
| 8 | I am sure that he has recorded what the hon. Gentleman said . |
| 9 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 10 | He has read what the care-worn pebbles say , and he does n't like it . |
| 11 | It is assumed that research has established what the nature of child abuse is , who the actual and potential perpetrators and victims are and hence what are the associated factors which put children at ‘ high risk ’ . |
| 12 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 13 | You have n't got one y know , quite cheap just mats that they they ah I 've got forgotten what the word is for it they make the mouse improves the performance of the mouse see |
| 14 | It 's the members of the police committee at the end of the day that 've had endorsed what the chief constable had done , and it 's their councils that are gon na suffer . |
| 15 | ‘ The Prime Minister must make known what the Government 's plans are . |
| 16 | The House will have heard what the hon. Gentleman said about his parliamentary neighbour . |
| 17 | That comes within the responsibility of my fellow Under-Secretary of State , my hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood ( Mr. Stewart ) , who will have heard what the hon. Gentleman said about further applications . |
| 18 | The detailed points raised by the hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) are matters for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , who will have heard what the hon. Gentleman has said . |
| 19 | I have not discussed with my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary whether he is pledging a £21 billion expenditure increase , but , having heard what the hon. Member for Stretford has said , I shall have a quiet word with my colleague to see whether he agrees . |
| 20 | Desperation and hunger had addled hir senses : SHe should have guessed what the score would be . |
| 21 | It was such a freak open accident that no amount of preparation or legislation could have prevented what the boy did on that particular occasion . |
| 22 | This rumour may have done what the poll tax did in 1381 , set fire to a potentially explosive situation , indeed one which had already shown signs of bursting into flame . |
| 23 | If they 'd told the Blakeys a week ago the Blakeys would have said what the clergyman had said : that Stephen 's father could not have been responsible . |
| 24 | So having , having found what the er the purpose of the exercise is , what , what the job is , that we 're trying to do , we need to beef up the detail a a and start to define requirements . |
| 25 | With that money , we could have provided what the people wanted and real choice . |
| 26 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 27 | Few among them could have known what the job entailed . |
| 28 | St Paul was not ‘ ordained ’ — and would not have known what the term connoted . |
| 29 | But the thousands of people who trudged to the polling stations to cast their vote for this party must have known what the terror tailpiece to the democratic process would have been . |
| 30 | ‘ But surely she must have known what the job entailed ? ’ she snapped , her anger in no way lessened by the knowledge that it was illogical . |