Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] what the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the influx of outsiders with a vision of the wine they wanted to create has shown what the region can do . |
| 3 | Second , asking questions establishes whether the buyer has understood what the salesperson has said . |
| 4 | This being so , we could say that the bistable has remembered what the input states were — it has the memory whereas a simple gate has not . |
| 5 | It is assumed that research has established what the nature of child abuse is , who the actual and potential perpetrators and victims are and hence what are the associated factors which put children at ‘ high risk ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ The Prime Minister must make known what the Government 's plans are . |
| 9 | Desperation and hunger had addled hir senses : SHe should have guessed what the score would be . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 14 | St Paul was not ‘ ordained ’ — and would not have known what the term connoted . |
| 15 | But the thousands of people who trudged to the polling stations to cast their vote for this party must have known what the terror tailpiece to the democratic process would have been . |
| 16 | Few among them could have known what the job entailed . |
| 17 | ‘ But surely she must have known what the job entailed ? ’ she snapped , her anger in no way lessened by the knowledge that it was illogical . |
| 18 | Having read what the Queen 's Speech says on matters of foreign policy , I must say that I found it a bit of a mish-mash . |
| 19 | He must have wondered what the outcome of it all would be , though he was not to remain in doubt for much longer . |
| 20 | Having described what the Chart qua graph looks like we must now consider its properties as a process . |
| 21 | Well I would have liked to have known what the noise was last night , I 'm sure it was a video game or something . |
| 22 | The officials were alleged to have poured what the prosecutor described as " unimaginable " amounts of government money into a private business enterprise called Art-B . |
| 23 | ‘ I would be hesitant about forecasting a recovery for Pentos until we 've heard what the Budget brings in March , ’ commented William Cullum , retail analyst at Panmure Gordon . |
| 24 | but I 've forgotten what the teaching was . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | ‘ I hope I 've got what the boss wants , ’ he said to his friend and rival , Geoffrey Topper . |
| 29 | In these matters Emilia Frere knew more than she , for the woman had crossed the threshold of the married state ; she had delivered herself over to the meeting of the flesh as Louisa had not been called upon to do ; she had experienced what the uninitiate could only surmise . |
| 30 | We 've never in the past looked in detail at the total work content to work out these time units , after all in the past , we 've known what the client wants , we 've been giving him it for years . |