Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 2 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 3 | He talked of ‘ the white man 's Christ ’ , invoked to preserve what the white man has got ; and of the ‘ black man 's Christ ’ — the Christ of suffering and sacrifice . |
| 4 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 5 | But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do . |
| 6 | He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him . |
| 7 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 8 | He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could . |
| 9 | He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long . |
| 10 | She trembled to think what the Trunchbull would do to her if she did that . |
| 11 | The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next . |
| 12 | No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream . |
| 13 | ‘ I came to see what the Romans were doing , ’ I explained . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 15 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 16 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 17 | Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be . |
| 18 | No one seemed to know what the situation was or what was going on but the diplomats , at least , had prepared for the worst . |
| 19 | I followed Ward 's lead as he seemed to know what the dishes were . |
| 20 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 21 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |
| 22 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 23 | I hated to imagine what the consequences of breaching this trust might be . |
| 24 | When it appeared that the intent to educate had been overwhelmed by the need to amuse , Cayley became chairman of the Royal Polytechnic Institution at Regent Street , which from 1838 sought to do what the Adelaide Gallery had failed to do . |
| 25 | She craned to see what the man was dragging , it looked like a body . |
| 26 | Nadirpur gradually began to grasp what the Englishman meant . |
| 27 | And and er and there er I began to learn what the what what things were beginning to happen in the coal fields . |
| 28 | ‘ Operations in the national interest ’ was a favourite phrase ; good and sharp , and carrying the implication that if you needed to know what the national interest was , you did not deserve to be told . |
| 29 | On the other hand , he needed to know what the man was up to . |
| 30 | Whatever was down there was very heavy and Endill shuddered to think what the giant eel would look like when it loomed into view . |