Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [Wh det] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying .
2 And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about .
3 He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him .
4 But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do .
5 He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation .
6 He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could .
7 Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage .
8 He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long .
9 She trembled to think what the Trunchbull would do to her if she did that .
10 The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next .
11 No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream .
12 And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see .
13 ‘ I came to see what the Romans were doing , ’ I explained .
14 ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was .
15 Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was .
16 Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be .
17 I followed Ward 's lead as he seemed to know what the dishes were .
18 No one seemed to know what the situation was or what was going on but the diplomats , at least , had prepared for the worst .
19 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 .
20 My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water .
21 I hated to imagine what the consequences of breaching this trust might be .
22 When it appeared that the intent to educate had been overwhelmed by the need to amuse , Cayley became chairman of the Royal Polytechnic Institution at Regent Street , which from 1838 sought to do what the Adelaide Gallery had failed to do .
23 She craned to see what the man was dragging , it looked like a body .
24 Nadirpur gradually began to grasp what the Englishman meant .
25 On the other hand , he needed to know what the man was up to .
26 Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block .
27 ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access .
28 They seemed annoyed to have been woken in this manner , and Stephen demanded to know what the problem was .
29 And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on .
30 Major Vine , a small , strutting , dark-eyed , bad-tempered stoat of a man , always agreed with the Colonel when he managed to hear what the Colonel had actually said .
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