Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say he is clever , clever enough to know what he wants to do and what makes him satisfied . |
| 2 | In therapy , the whole thing is to facilitate the other person to feel safe enough to hear what they 've got to say , and I 'm the witness or advocate . |
| 3 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 4 | I say fuck this war , in which the defenders of villages make a skirmish and then Army tanks and personnel carriers come in to protect what they have done ’ . |
| 5 | You spend years learning something only to forget what you 've learned . |
| 6 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know what you 're talking about … ’ he blustered , turning to face her , trying not to acknowledge what he saw written on her face . |
| 8 | Yes , I find it a lot easier actually not to know what they 've done , when you start work there you tend to come over these cases , which to do |
| 9 | They say , ‘ Daddy , look what I 've got , ’ and you try not to let what you 've seen that day get to you . |
| 10 | So everyone every everyone everyone should have a copy of the questions in their book just to tell what they 've worked on . |
| 11 | Jill would work for me if Uncle was n't around but as soon as he appeared she did n't care a fig for me and would be off to see what he wanted to do . |
| 12 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |
| 13 | Can a person be counted on to do what they agree to do ? |
| 14 | Mum snatched it up to see what we had got but Dad forestalled the outburst he knew was coming . |
| 15 | The others looked up to see what he had got . |
| 16 | ‘ And Taczek confessed to her that he 'd murdered Mills ? ’ asked Dexter earnestly to confirm what they had heard . |
| 17 | ‘ We were supposed to follow our scriptures , ’ she explained , ‘ but all he [ the high priest ] did was to change them or make extra things up to suit what he wanted to do . ’ |
| 18 | You do not have to draw each axis to the zero point , but you must label each axis clearly to show what you have done . |
| 19 | People who set traps come back to see what they 've caught . ’ |
| 20 | Then I put my hands out to explore what I had tripped over . |
| 21 | She hesitated , searching back to remember what she had said , and then she laughed . |
| 22 | Willy let the dog out to do what it wants to do . |
| 23 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |
| 24 | Although most girls ca n't wait to leave the home for their own place to do their own thing , some always come back to show what they 've achieved , or to say it was n't so bad in the home after all . |
| 25 | And her lips , opening to reply to his question , were long and mobile , eloquent even before she spoke , though she might sometimes go on to contradict what they had intimated . |
| 26 | But last night he had refused even to consider what she had told him , tossing it to one side as though it did n't matter . |
| 27 | Its somewhat sketchy character suggests , in fact , that his main purpose was simply to finish what he had begun rather than to give urgent or forceful expression to his views . |
| 28 | As you analyse , use the methods described here to learn what you have analysed . |
| 29 | There was none had any part in it but I. Enquire no further , for I stand here to declare what I have done , and to defend it . ’ |
| 30 | Peter had begun to study it on Sunday , chiefly to discover what he had had to say about Abbotsfield . |