Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 2 | In order to draft effectively , and to make intelligent use of precedents , the drafter must not only know what to say but why it is necessary to say it , how to say it , and what will be the result of saying it differently . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're all old enough and wise enough to know what to do , but we are n't doing it . |
| 4 | As instructional material it is indirect in that the reader is not necessarily told what to do , as in a routine . |
| 5 | The traditional ‘ liontamer ’ approach , where people are literally told what to do and how to do it , was most evident in the arts and crafts classes . |
| 6 | Floorcoverings withstand a great deal of wear and tear in the average home , and buying the wrong type can be a hideously expensive mistake , so knowing what to put where is very important . |
| 7 | They learn all the wrong ways of doing things and so learn what to avoid . |
| 8 | Ruth could not think what to say to him . |
| 9 | Daak had looked confused : he marched straight to Ace , but seemed not to know what to do next . |
| 10 | Up home they 'd soon know what to call you if you started going on like that . |
| 11 | I did not know what to do with it , why I was there . |
| 12 | Rather plainly the poem decides , as others have decided before and since , that the revolution 's humble heroes , revolution once accomplished , did not know what to do with the liberation they had achieved . |
| 13 | I do not know what to do and sneak looks at everyone else , while the ‘ real ’ campers pause to stare as we sit on Karrimats eating supper . |
| 14 | You have all the knowledge , and all the choices are available , and the trouble is that with all this knowledge a child does not know what to do , how to make a decision . |
| 15 | He would not know what to do if her eyes told him to stay when Buddie had given him permission to leave . |
| 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 | But , having gained it , they do not know what to do with it — yet . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Widdup said he would not know what to do with ‘ the ludicrous amount of money ’ . |
| 19 | It lasts 40 minutes and contains so much inventive material in its one-movement , arch-like structure that one sometimes feels Holloway did not know what to do with it all , a pleasing problem for any composer today ! |
| 20 | I did not know what to do next . |
| 21 | ‘ On the point of breaking I think , and I do not know what to do . |
| 22 | I know he is sick , but I do not know how sick , and therefore I do not know what to do . |
| 23 | I did not know what to do with the child . ’ |
| 24 | Marcus still stood looking down , almost as if he were now puzzled and did not know what to do next . |
| 25 | Franco did not know what to do . |
| 26 | Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for . |
| 27 | When 13 , Mackenzie was sent to be educated at a hearing school where the teachers did not know what to do with him , and left him to his own devices a lot of the time . |
| 28 | But the company did not know what to do with its discovery : Lyle and other directors feared that developing sucralose would create a powerful competitor for the real thing . |
| 29 | I did not know what to do or where to go , so I approached a very nice policeman , told him I was from the country and asked which gate I should use . |
| 30 | It can be more comfortable to say , ‘ I had to do it ’ , than ‘ I did not know what to do and then I decided … ’ |