Example sentences of "what did the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it turns out that the question is unacceptable when the final property is an adjective : ( 24 ) the jury found Ernest guilty : what did the jury do guilty ? |
| 2 | What did the nurse say about that ? |
| 3 | In the pantomime Cinderella , what did the fairy godmother use to make the coach ? |
| 4 | What did the word ‘ delicious ’ mean to someone who cared not a fig about cuisine ? |
| 5 | What did the word mean ? |
| 6 | ‘ What did the vet say ? ’ |
| 7 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 8 | What did the committee do ? |
| 9 | What did the zinc do to the hydrogen ? |
| 10 | Hang on hang on metal and acid say think of the zinc and which acid was it we used H two S O four , what did the zinc do to the hydrogen ? |
| 11 | ‘ And what did the Minister say to that ? ’ |
| 12 | What did the Minister of Health say the other day ? |
| 13 | What did the question infer ? |
| 14 | Most of us have not really solved that puzzle even today , but what did the question look like in the eighteenth century ? |
| 15 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 16 | well what did the person look like ? |
| 17 | And what did the competitor have ? |
| 18 | ‘ What did the King say , Jack ? ’ |
| 19 | But what did the Church define as heresy ? |
| 20 | What did the Ministry expect , how did they think the men would react ? |
| 21 | What did the Admiral 's disk yield ? ’ |
| 22 | Question : What did the Queen say to you ? |
| 23 | Then ( for each product remembered ) what did the ad tell you about the product ? |
| 24 | After all , what did the Marshal himself remember about that morning other than the snow ? |
| 25 | What did the secret have to do with ? |
| 26 | What did the fool have to come here for ? |
| 27 | ‘ What did the annexe people say ? ’ |
| 28 | What did the gas man cover read our meter . |
| 29 | What , what did the policeman say to a bath ? |
| 30 | Well I do n't know , what did the policeman say to the bath ? |