Example sentences of "[prep] what [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system of financial ownership does not generate as much risk in the first place , while the state handles much of what does occur . |
| 2 | But the evidence of what did happen will be all round us , the wallpaper being ruined where the soup dripped down it and the carpet , I should think , impossible to clean . ’ |
| 3 | Most of what did sell was overwhelmingly inexpensive , if not cheap , ranging from $350 carte-de-visites of nineteenth-century artists and composers ( at David and Constance Yates , New York ) to Old Master prints and lithographs in the $5,000–10,000 range . |
| 4 | In Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Diplock LJ said " It is natural … to tend to look at what in fact happened under the agreement ; but the question of the validity of a covenant in restraint of trade has to be determined at the date at which the agreement was entered into and has to be determined in the light of what may happen under the agreement , although what may happen may be and always is different in some respects from what did happen . |
| 5 | Retailers and manufacturers sought both clarification over what does constitute safe use , and a definition of cling film ( any stretchy film which clings to itself ) . |
| 6 | For what does know mean in such cases ? |