Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Aqib countered : ‘ We did not know what all the fuss was about . |
| 2 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
| 3 | In fact I do not understand what all the fuss is about . ’ |
| 4 | It no longer functioned as a club ; members could not understand what all the others were up to , and were aware that the interests of physicists and of biologists might be opposed . |
| 5 | Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’ |
| 6 | She told me , just as did you a moment ago , about being put to bed and the sprinkling of holy water — but I could still not see what all the fuss was about ! |
| 7 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 8 | In the event , the Ventura users are probably wondering what all the fuss is about . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks like an old-fashioned sunbonnet , ’ she pronounced , ‘ I ca n't really see what all the fuss is about . ’ |
| 10 | What you want to go interfering for she burst out , leave me and my family alone , little busy body always sticking your nose into other people 's affairs , Daryl 's temper flared up , I do n't she said , you gua rd your tongue Sally , I never meant to interfere and I ca n't think what all the fuss is about , either you have a sister or you have n't , I do n't care . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about , ’ Clive Berlin , QPR 's managing director , said . |
| 12 | ‘ I just do n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 13 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 14 | She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days . |
| 15 | Gerald Thomas allowed himself to add : ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about . ’ |
| 16 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 17 | Sir Stanley Matthews , who was the first footballer to be knighted says he still does n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 18 | We did n't even know what all the fuss was about and actually thought the lifeboat was a drifting wreck . |
| 19 | ‘ I still do n't understand what all the fuss is about , ’ Ellen replied in a slightly peevish tone . |
| 20 | I ca n't understand what all the fuss is about . |
| 21 | I ca n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 22 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 23 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 24 | I did n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 25 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 26 | Darlington Civic Theatre CA N'T see what all the fuss was about really . |
| 27 | But I never knew what all the other stars meant , just that one constellation . |