Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what do " 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 ‘ We 're all old enough and wise enough to know what to do , but we are n't doing it .
3 As instructional material it is indirect in that the reader is not necessarily told what to do , as in a routine .
4 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 .
5 Daak had looked confused : he marched straight to Ace , but seemed not to know what to do next .
6 I did not know what to do with it , why I was there .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 He would not know what to do if her eyes told him to stay when Buddie had given him permission to leave .
11 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 .
12 But , having gained it , they do not know what to do with it — yet . ’
13 Mr Widdup said he would not know what to do with ‘ the ludicrous amount of money ’ .
14 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 !
15 I did not know what to do next .
16 ‘ On the point of breaking I think , and I do not know what to do .
17 I know he is sick , but I do not know how sick , and therefore I do not know what to do .
18 I did not know what to do with the child . ’
19 Marcus still stood looking down , almost as if he were now puzzled and did not know what to do next .
20 Franco did not know what to do .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 It can be more comfortable to say , ‘ I had to do it ’ , than ‘ I did not know what to do and then I decided … ’
26 CRUSE ( The National Organisation for the Widowed and their Children ) , and other organisations like it , provide support and a valuable shoulder to cry on when you do not know what to do .
27 For the young person starting out alone there will be moments of panic — phone calls home , and moments of miserable isolation when you do not know what to do , either practically or emotionally .
28 He does not know what to do , and it takes time to solve the problem .
29 As a complete beginner I did not know what to do .
30 If the former , then consumers have money in their bank accounts or pockets that they do not know what to do with and may therefore not mind increased taxation to pay for schools , hospitals , and the social services .
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