Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will make judgements as to the quality of the work , basing their opinion upon what is actually published , and the author 's reputation may be made or broken by what the critics say . |
| 2 | This may cause difficulty where the audience were annoyed or distressed by what the defendant was doing . |
| 3 | It gave me a few minutes to stop and think about what the hell I was doing . |
| 4 | All the Brownies were invited to go home and think about what the Pack could do for the fete and bring their ideas and suggestions along to the next Pack Meeting . |
| 5 | Opposing forces in the dispute over the bill claimed victory , accused each other of capitulation and disagreed over what the compromise meant . |
| 6 | The campaign to achieve a healthy teeange nation calls on more guidance for teachers and parents to recognise the trouble signs and listen to what the teenagers say . |
| 7 | Here 's what I did : just at the moment the tears were about to gush out over the waterproof liner , taking the soft lenses in a Niagara-like descent towards the jawbone , I looked at a poster or a newspaper and thought about what the words meant . |
| 8 | Duncan sat back , shut his eyes and went over what the policeman had said . |
| 9 | The Stathern map of 1792 shows the same planning of new roads in more or less straight lines and judging by what the Ordnance map shows in other parts of the Midlands and eastern England the same thing happened fairly generally . |
| 10 | Others , on some of the more northerly islands , away from the emotion and strength of feeling in South Ronaldsay , were still murmuring that ‘ there 's no smoke without fire ’ and speculating on what the parents of the nine children had been up to . |
| 11 | So a young man really has to get initiated and conform to what the elders expect if he 's going to have any reproductive success at all and that 's exactly what happens . |
| 12 | However , so insistent was the man , saying his message was a matter of life or death , that Meredith 's mother finally agreed to go to his room to see if he would emerge and listen to what the messenger had to say . |
| 13 | give 'em a go , let's go and sit and listen to what the bloke says |
| 14 | All she really wanted , if she could not be in his presence , was to be left alone so that she could recall and relive in her mind every moment of that morning 's encounter , and dream about what the future might hold for her . |
| 15 | It is worth noting that a number of subjects did not answer the b question in terms of truth or falsehood of fact , but according to what the speaker , in asking the preceding question , had appeared to presuppose . |
| 16 | These do not correspond to any pattern or structure inherent in the text , but consist of what the reader judges to be an identifiable unit , ( a phrase , a sentence , a couple of sentences ) . |
| 17 | This variation is not built into the word-meaning , but depends on what the word happens to correspond to extralinguistically on any given occasion when it is used . |