Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it any wonder that , while I might have been too hard-headed to accept what is happening to me , I could not deny I actually felt my heart give a tug that night ? ’ |
| 2 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 3 | Those that are n't winners do n't want to know what 's happening to anybody else . |
| 4 | DO YOU want to know what 's happening to our countryside , forests , seas and seashores at home and across the world ? |
| 5 | I mean they like to know what 's happening to their children all day . |
| 6 | You obviously need to know what 's happening on each side of the hedge . |
| 7 | Tucker wants to know what 's happening about Francis 's personal effects . |
| 8 | ‘ Now you know I 've no right to be here , ’ she said , ‘ I want you to know what 's waiting for me if ever I get taken back . |
| 9 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 10 | We need to know what is happening to mental hospitals because they still contain most of the country 's long stay ( continuing care ) beds . |
| 11 | You have to want to know what is happening to the people . ’ |
| 12 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 13 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 14 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 15 | ‘ I have my duties , ’ replied Dr Neil , assuming a pompous voice , ‘ and one of them is to know what is happening in the world . |
| 16 | You want to know what is happening in a Third World trouble-spot . |
| 17 | Management now requires a larger perspective than in the past : the school manager needs to know what is happening in higher education , in technical education and in the vocational sphere . |
| 18 | Like McAllister , he wanted to know what was coming over him . |
| 19 | It was always better to know what was going on than to lie in bed with the door shut and wonder what was happening . |
| 20 | It must have been hard for her — uprooted and transported to a strange country — not to know what was happening to her and her mother , apart from the fact that somehow or other they 'd been able to join up again with the father . |
| 21 | By such a refined technique as this it is possible to know what was happening in various aggradation deposits at various periods of Post-glacial history . |
| 22 | He said that they sounded all right , but that he would like to know what was happening in practice . |
| 23 | ‘ It is very hard for me to comprehend what is happening to me at home in Australia let alone here in Britain and around the world . |
| 24 | It was also surprisingly incompetent and reactionary , and it was unable to comprehend what was happening within Britain or what was happening to Britain 's relationship with the rest of the world . |
| 25 | I did n't exactly try to imagine what was happening in my body . |
| 26 | I lived in a room off the kitchen , so thin-walled that it was impossible not to hear what was happening in the dining room unless Wu had a gadget going . |
| 27 | In a sense his experience supports his theory , but also mocks it , for the ability to perceive what is happening in London when you are in Oxford is not true spiritual knowledge . |
| 28 | For the ordinary civilian politicians of Bharatpur , these complex family questions are tending to obscure what is looming as a tense election battle in a pivotal seat that both sides badly need to win . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been trying to elicit what is happening in Scotland . |
| 30 | Is there also something to do what 's happening in Eastern Europe . |