Example sentences of "[verb] what [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 2 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 3 | Step 3 : Test the model resulting from step 2 for artificial constraints and any misstatements of logic and produce a new cost and time model representing what should have happened during the performance of the contract . |
| 4 | We can describe what would happen in an elaboration of Cairns-Smith 's description of his hypo experiment . |
| 5 | At the very least , these models suggest what might have existed and how the few sites that have been detected may be interpreted . |
| 6 | The two Libyan nationals accused by the US and UK of the Libya bombing are alleged to have committed what would amount to offences under the Montreal Convention . |
| 7 | Thus , in the case of Parchment , the police committed what would have been a number of breaches of the rules had the accused been in the police station , but , simply because the supposed infractions had taken place before his arrival , the crown court held that nothing wrongful had occurred . |
| 8 | It 's not that I wo n't be prepared to face such conditions , it 's just that I realise what could happen . |
| 9 | I 'd like to know what would happen then . ’ |
| 10 | And again and again , on my side , I wanted to know what would happen to us . |
| 11 | ‘ If this is what it 's like to be under your protection , I 'd bloody well like to know what would happen if I were n't ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Gradually I got to know what would work , it caught the mood , the shadows held up and the grain was soft , it was like a pastel painting . |
| 13 | You do n't need to see the film to know what 'll happen . |
| 14 | Children read a wide variety of things , from the back of the cereal packet to The Dandy , from a page of the daily newspaper to something written by Roald Dahl , and who is to know what will trigger off ideas , possibilities , expectations , or activity ? |
| 15 | You are entitled to know what will happen if you transgress again . |
| 16 | He writes because ‘ if I do n't write , I suffer ’ ; he writes because he wants to know what will happen in his book ; he is , he says , his ‘ own reader ’ , prey to a phenomenon : automatic writing . |
| 17 | If you are confused about what has happened or curious to know what will happen to a topic , consult the index ; if I have got it right , the index will tell you the story . |
| 18 | He would like to hear any information available on AEAs preferred strategy for privatisation and would like to know what will happen over terms and conditions for staff when Government division and Commercial division diverge . |
| 19 | The trouble is that no-one appears to know what will happen after the Olympics and whether if by then the United Nations ' blacklist will preclude British members of the Tour from competing in certain countries . |
| 20 | Since the Shadow is the complement of our conscious self , it is easy to guess what might lurk in the darkness . |
| 21 | Instead he tried to guess what might have been said . |
| 22 | They came to Corman 's office to establish what would become a lifelong , though intermittent , friendship between them and Nicholson . |
| 23 | It is therefore of importance to establish what will constitute a pecuniary interest . |
| 24 | A contractor could use the actual performance when not working under claim conditions to establish what should have been foreseeable . |
| 25 | The Institute of Employment Research at Warwick University recently carried out a number of macroeconomic simulations to discover what would happen if Britain installed sufficient microelectronic technology to improve its rate of productivity growth by 1 per cent relative to its competitors . |
| 26 | Laboratory experiments were made in the 1950s to discover what might happen to these particular chemical constituents under such conditions . |
| 27 | She digressed , running through in her mind the bag 's contents to discover what could have interested him . |
| 28 | You do n't know what may happen to him . |
| 29 | well I can remember him skinny from school , I can , what was you saying you do n't know what 'll last ? |
| 30 | I just ca n't see it ending at all and I do n't know what 'll happen when John gets out . |