Example sentences of "[vb pp] what the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 2 | Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town . |
| 3 | A letter to the Japanese ambassador in Washington , signed by all 100 members of the US Senate , had preceded what the US saw as Japan 's belated Aug. 5 commitment on sanctions . |
| 4 | You have n't got one y know , quite cheap just mats that they they ah I 've got forgotten what the word is for it they make the mouse improves the performance of the mouse see |
| 5 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 6 | By the time it came she had almost forgotten what the question was . |
| 7 | There is one thing , and I think I did take it with you , erm , Mr Chairman , I 'm with the erm , I 've forgotten what the question on , corporational liberties , the thing that is concentrating many of our minds quite some , but the er , would , would the Chief Fire Officer like to ? |
| 8 | but I 've forgotten what the teaching was . |
| 9 | Not that Barry 's forgotten what the weather 's like back home … |
| 10 | Erm forgotten what the answer was . |
| 11 | Flat-dwellers have probably forgotten what the front of their block looks like behind the forest of advertisments . |
| 12 | And the outcome of that was that by the time the boys reached the hut where they lived with their grandfather , they had clean forgotten what the sun-god told them to do . |
| 13 | to have erm , oh I 've forgotten what the terms are now anyway , yes , it was very much a Thatcherite family view |
| 14 | And you would take this book and you 'd put a hard piece of it was a kind of a a cardboard that would n't absorb water I 've forgotten what the thing was made of . |
| 15 | considered what the resource . |
| 16 | Erm , as I say , she 's like , she 's very democratic , and she 's always asking them what they felt how , how they felt they should tackle it , I mean They had n't decided what the message should be |
| 17 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 18 | Once it has decided what the text is ‘ about ’ , it queries each apparently new or discordant topic or action , and amends its database from the writer 's response . |
| 19 | He may not have returned to Paris in 1944 with all his answers to France 's problems fully formed , but he had at least decided what the problems were . |
| 20 | I think th the difficulty with that kind of day is that unless you 've decided what the outcome 's going to be before you start , you 're not actually going together are you ? |
| 21 | It was such a freak open accident that no amount of preparation or legislation could have prevented what the boy did on that particular occasion . |
| 22 | This rumour may have done what the poll tax did in 1381 , set fire to a potentially explosive situation , indeed one which had already shown signs of bursting into flame . |
| 23 | However , after the case was over I confess to having cheated and done what the voices of infallibility , myself among them , have said must not be done in construing legislation : I looked at Hansard . |
| 24 | As we discuss the changing role of the traditional high-street off-licence , it is all too plain that none of the first six customers have browsed or bought wine or done what the market research says they should be doing . |
| 25 | I mean what he 's done what the director 's telling him to do . |
| 26 | He would have survived if he had accepted the plan in the first place and done what the Corporation had wanted him to do instead of putting forward his own counter proposals . |
| 27 | He had done what the Phoenicians had done , and the Byzantines , the Romans , the Crusaders , the Genoese and the Mamelukes . |
| 28 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 29 | On 19 December 1991 the local authority made their application for an interim care order and I have said what the order was . |
| 30 | If they 'd told the Blakeys a week ago the Blakeys would have said what the clergyman had said : that Stephen 's father could not have been responsible . |