Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 2 | We relaxed for an hour with a cup of tea and Otley switched the magic box on to see what the world was up to . |
| 3 | That 's correct Chairman I think erm , we will be looking obviously to see what the prospects were within er the urban area and er sites do and surprisingly do continue to arrive and come up and we some other uses , erm they would make some contribution obviously erm , the other options would as you say be to look beyond beyond the greenbelt at the opportunities that are available there . |
| 4 | You 've really got to be one to appreciate the spirit of the place but pop in to see what a real pub should be like . |
| 5 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 6 | On the rare occasions when the cooling towers are for maintenance , the staff wait eagerly to see what the pond reveals . |
| 7 | ‘ The client and I work together to see what the problem was in the past and how it affects the present . ’ |
| 8 | They called us all down to see what a million pounds looked like . |
| 9 | They come down to see what the situation really is . |
| 10 | I just looked down to see what the time was , I just looked up |
| 11 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 12 | Now , as a background to that , I actually had one of my officers at undertake research of the in to establish what the demands were made upon us from th the section which includes at the present time . |
| 13 | Whereupon , Dustin , at around 3 a. m. , phoned Murray Schisgal 's room to tell him to come down to hear what the Englishmen had to say about his play . |
| 14 | A child must be old enough to understand what the natural consequences of his or her actions are likely to be . |
| 15 | It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 16 | Thus it seems that Lacanian psychoanalysis , both in theory and practice , aims merely to show what a fragmented , decentred thing the human subject is , and Lacan has dismissed all talk of ‘ unity ’ or ‘ identity ’ as an illusion . |
| 17 | To gain a clearer understanding of the differences between such schools of thought , and thus to see what the opposition between holism and individualism consists in , it is therefore essential to try to do something that the protagonists in such debates themselves seem unwilling to attempt ; to give a more precise account of the conflicting conceptions of individuals and their capacities that underlie these disagreements . |
| 18 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 19 | Just to see what the people say . |
| 20 | Curious , she went over to see what the paper said . |
| 21 | I needed it because when I finally disentangled myself from Zaria 's legs ( another advantage noted : no claws ) , I padded over to see what the noise was . |
| 22 | Then first one , then another and finally eight cabbies all wandered over to see what the fuss was . |
| 23 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 24 | Roger : Yes , but it 's too soon to know what the differences will be . |
| 25 | BRITISH sub-aqua divers are being warned not to desecrate what the Japanese say are their biggest war graves in the South Pacific . |
| 26 | If you can not resolve the matter amicably , I suggest you contact the local council — not with a view to making a direct complaint , but just to establish what the regulations are concerning open fires . |
| 27 | This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation . |
| 28 | But the Friar 's wits had not yet returned to him and he seemed not to hear what the Trapper said . |
| 29 | Comments on the Green Paper have been requested by 14 January 1994 and it is at the time of writing too soon to predict what the ultimate shape of the implementing legislation will be . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't tell it not to do what a nome tells it to do . |