Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] what the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At least the rabbits wo n't know that Frank Cauldhame did what he did to them , the way a community of people knows what the baddies did to them , so that the revenge ends up having the opposite effect from that intended , inciting rather than squashing resistance .
2 The problem with framing the duty to act in the company 's interests in terms of subjective intentions , however , is that in practice determining what the directors ' true objectives are will often be beyond the court 's capabilities .
3 Not with a thing like a outputs of aspirin , I mean everyone in Boots knows what the outputs of aspirin are just strange that they are in fact three times what we 'd thought they were and we 've course there 's Crooks , course there 's this , course there 's that tremendous discernment , tremendous understanding but if you have n't got that tremendous understanding , you 've just joined the company , you think you know something and you do n't because not what they think they are
4 If one has to resort to such an intentional framework in order to make sense of the behaviour , in order to explain what the creatures are doing and why , and has so to resort after exhausting all possibilities of more austere , less anthropomorphic frameworks of explanation , then one is on the route to linguistic meanings .
5 A part of the recent NHS White paper was devoted to the need for hospitals to undertake much more extensive ‘ market research ’ in order to establish what the clients ( patients ? ) wanted to be provided .
6 His employers , confident of his loyalty , tell him that he should always go to lunch to see what the rivals are offering .
7 That does n't satisfy campaigners who fear the development of what they 're calling the M418 will bring increased traffic and more — this is a site bought by Esso to build what the protestors fear will be a motorway service station .
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