Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] what [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Would you rather know what 's happened or what 's happening ? |
| 4 | All of the other theories to be discussed here can only describe what has happened ; they have no real conception of what the motive force of power or change is in society over time other than to rely on describing the eclectic , indeterminate behaviour of subjective and free individuals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erm , unfortunately erm , when you let a contract out , you 've got certain criteria and a contractor will only do what 's specified on their contract . |
| 7 | It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees . |
| 8 | One can only guess what became of the dogs of the town , for they were usually trained to guard their master 's property to the death . |
| 9 | First of all , local authorities possess only a very limited economic power and can only exercise what powers they have in very small geographical areas . |
| 10 | One can only wonder what kept Alpine dwellers pinned to their meagre existence beyond habit , tradition and nowhere else to go . |
| 11 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 12 | because they can only accept what 's given verbally , they ca n't read for themselves oh I do n't know |
| 13 | I was so shook up by the screeching I could n't rightly say what happened . ’ |
| 14 | He could not think what had got into Helen , normally as rational as himself about all this , or so he had thought . |
| 15 | Really , she could not think what had come over Harold . |
| 16 | He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand . |
| 17 | Ruth could not think what to say to him . |
| 18 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 19 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 20 | I simply can not think what has happened to this class you 've ta when you 've . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not think what 's come over Brian , ’ she said . |
| 22 | This feature allows you to play direct to tape , or direct to a house P.A. The output from the emulator is not affected by the level control on the JMP-1 's front panel , so any changes you make for your stage level will not affect what goes out front , or to tape , should you be recording the ‘ Live Album ’ . |
| 23 | try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army . |
| 24 | Yet identification with the aggressor , even if it may suggest a very early and rudimentary phase in superego development and therefore in internalization of the primal father , can not explain what had to happen next ; for , as we have seen , the crucial turning-point would have come only when aggression within the brother-band became inhibited . |
| 25 | History does not relate what steps she used . |
| 26 | This means that general relativity can not predict what comes out of a singularity . |
| 27 | Up home they 'd soon know what to call you if you started going on like that . |
| 28 | But she did not know what came next . |
| 29 | I did not know what to do with it , why I was there . |
| 30 | 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 . |