Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [Wh det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 3 | While she was ponderously explaining what an LOA presentation was , they could n't probe at him . |
| 4 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 5 | On the rare occasions when the cooling towers are for maintenance , the staff wait eagerly to see what the pond reveals . |
| 6 | ‘ The client and I work together to see what the problem was in the past and how it affects the present . ’ |
| 7 | I just looked down to see what the time was , I just looked up |
| 8 | They come down to see what the situation really is . |
| 9 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Sam can apparently do what the hell he likes , with as many women as he pleases ! ’ |
| 12 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 13 | Local authorities can only do what the law explicitly allows ; all council powers come from Acts of Parliament . |
| 14 | ‘ To keep the whole thing in the right perspective , you have to remember that it does n't necessarily matter what a manager decides , the service that the resident receives is actually given by the care assistant . |
| 15 | The cultural baggage which any social group , tribe , or institution such as the police acquires over time can thus be translated to reveal just what sustains it , and furthermore reveal what the society itself may not even have understood . |
| 16 | The Purchaser can only see what the Vendor makes available : it may not disclose everything . |
| 17 | A political gamble was taken too : that if hostages were released , Americans would not greatly mind what the price or the means had been . |
| 18 | I 'm still not entirely clear what a microprocessor is . |
| 19 | In terms of the performance of the economy as a whole it is not entirely clear what the impact of regional disparities is , though it seems plausible that congestion in the south east and the under-utilisation of resources elsewhere represent a net loss to the economy overall . |
| 20 | At the moment I 'm not entirely clear what the difference is between these two forms of words . |
| 21 | The words were merely describing what the book was about . |
| 22 | The priest , understandably , flees ; the wife tells her husband that he is running off with the partridges , with the result that the husband pursues the priest brandishing his knife , apparently confirming what the wife told the priest . |
| 23 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 24 | I can perhaps anticipate what the Minister will say . |
| 25 | Jonathan Dollimore has noted that ‘ one problem in particular has exercised critics of Dr Faustus : its structure , inherited from the morality form , apparently negates what the play experientially affirms — the heroic aspiration of ‘ Renaissance man ’ ' . |
| 26 | The " fundamental " principle of education is that the head can only take what the seat can take . |
| 27 | Shylock says himself that it is not only a Jewish teaching , it is also a Christian 's way of thought , and he is only doing what a Christian would do : ( Act 3 , Scene 1 , lines 54–55 ) |
| 28 | He knew that Alain was a fair fighter and that he was only doing what every driver does , taking advantage of his superiority in performance . |
| 29 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 30 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |