Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that girl that was sacked for pinching what was it ? |
| 2 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 3 | But the traditionally minded researcher might be forgiven for asking what these two distinct approaches have to do with politics , for both of them in their own ways have argued major political components of regions and regionalism out of court . |
| 4 | At the moment the opening screen looks a little blank and you might be forgiven for wondering what comes next . |
| 5 | Those who saw the 30 yard putt she holed stone dead at the eighth , or her playing of the 18th , where she hit a glorious seven iron to ten feet before holing for her birdie , could be forgiven for wondering what on earth she was talking about . |
| 6 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 7 | Witnesses were found and coerced or bullied into telling what they had seen , by the simple expedient of sealing off the entire area for blocks around and threatening all-night interrogation sessions , unless information was forthcoming . |
| 8 | Only a handful of politicians in Britain have succeeded in doing what Heseltine has done — establishing a claim to leadership while outside the ruling group of his party . |
| 9 | It is a book that I greatly admire , for in his own time its author succeeded in doing what I am struggling to do now . |
| 10 | The Centre Party was also committed to ending what it saw as the system of political patronage and was more sceptical than the other main parties about the possibility of Finland joining the European Communities . |
| 11 | She swam and read and sat in the sun … about as close as she had come to getting what she 'd imagined for her one shining summer . |
| 12 | In these cases the general case law must be looked at to decide what warranties are to be implied in this area . |
| 13 | Behaviouralist critics , who found these principles inconsistent , responded by pressing what they took to be the claims of scientific method , thus moving still further into Explanation and away from Morgenthau 's residual gestures to human nature as an interpretative posit . |
| 14 | Erm I think that in in broad terms that covers the architectural aspects we we have of course , as er , Paul mentioned at the beginning erm talked the these designs through with the Clark Hill , Honey Hill and Fern Hill Resident 's Association and they have erm been , been shown the exhibition on the estate and er we believe that they 've been well received towards seeing what |
| 15 | The US administration , anxious not to be pushed into vetoing what it saw as an unacceptable draft resolution originally proposed by Cuba , Colombia , Malaysia and Yemen , had launched prolonged diplomatic efforts to secure this more acceptable formulation . |
| 16 | They are prevented from entering what appears to them the more appealing world of work , a world in which they can earn independence and the goods that money can buy . |
| 17 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman wants a society in which people are prevented from drinking what they want . |
| 18 | If a person is prevented from doing what they would otherwise intend or desire to do , or if they are coerced into doing what they would not otherwise want or desire to do , they are not acting autonomously . |
| 19 | The same analytical method can be adopted in identifying what happened and why it happened in an accident which is entirely operational in character , though in such a case there would be greater dependence upon some of the less precise characteristics of human behaviour in the explanation of why certain things were done . |
| 20 | No progress will be made without agreeing what the fundamental questions and issues really are . ’ |
| 21 | We had talked already over the telephone about her radical decision a few months ago to begin wearing the traditional Muslim dress , and how relieved she had felt since changing what she wore , feeling that she was ‘ expressing something she had felt all along ’ . |
| 22 | Also throughout the branches of physical geography it was necessary to convince members of other disciplines that physical geographers had a contribution to make and this had to be done by showing what could be done rather than by simply stating in advance that a physical geographer had much to contribute . |
| 23 | A similar switch-over type of story can be written by doing what I have counselled writers of full-length detective stories not to do : by slipping in a tiny clue in the hope that readers will miss it . |
| 24 | However , Æthelweard , who was of the finest English stock , and may well have been the man of that name executed by Cnut in 1017 ( see above ) , dissembled by undertaking what he had no intention of performing , and the Chronicle records the ætheling 's eventual banishment in 1017 . |
| 25 | Perhaps these kinds of questions are best answered by knowing what we want to analyse . |
| 26 | This is best answered by asking what the desired goal is . |
| 27 | Alexei thought about asking what latest scandal Jehan had heard , and how widely it was being spread abroad . |
| 28 | ‘ Got ta do what the big man says . ’ |
| 29 | And a man 's got ta do what a man 's got ta do , when a woman 's hot and willing . |
| 30 | At a time like this a man 's got ta do what a man 's got ta do . |