Example sentences of "[coord] what [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | The source of the smoke turned out to be a huge cast-iron incinerator behind the house which had been crammed full of papers and what seemed to be old clothes . |
| 32 | trickled down , Jack could see a boy with oriental features and what seemed to be a rain-soaked face . |
| 33 | There was a further link with editors , not such a happy one , for false reports and rumours were constantly appearing , and what seemed to be a campaign of vilification of the police . |
| 34 | She was wearing schoolboy shorts herself , and what seemed to be an eleven-year-old 's prep-school cricket blazer . |
| 35 | Others floated slowly downstream , sitting upright like bathtoys amid a flotsam of bottles and skeins of plastic and what seemed to be sandwiches , while several more patrolled a little shingly beach almost beneath the piers of the bridge . |
| 36 | He could see a table and chairs and what seemed to be the end of a large settee . |
| 37 | between my arm and what seemed to be air — |
| 38 | And what to say to him when she did ? |
| 39 | Earlier this week , he asked how effective the flood defences had been on February 20 and what changes to policy , investment programme and evacuation procedures were planned . |
| 40 | Miller poignantly captures the variety and conflict of feelings that followed the war — the mixture of relief , sorrow , dissatisfaction , and what came to be called survival guilt . |
| 41 | Jebb favoured a system of alliance or partnership between Britain and what came to be known as the dominions : he approved of separate dominion navies in co-operation with the Royal Navy ; he wanted tariff reform and imperial preference as means of binding the dominions more closely ; and he wanted the imperial conference turned into a continuous body handling large defence and economic questions . |
| 42 | The original batch of potential logos included a sun , a reworking of the castle theme , several variations on trumpets , a somewhat indistinct cockerel , typographical puns on the lettering , and what came to be known as the Festival cherub . |
| 43 | After all , they were susceptible to stretch and shrinkage and what looked to be a perfect alignment might just as easily evaporate using more precise calculations . |
| 44 | Mrs Thatcher , on the other hand , claimed that previous Tory leaders had agreed on the country 's problems and what needed to be done — cutting public expenditure and direct taxation , reforming the unions , and restoring the incentives and financial disciplines of the free market — but failed to carry through the policies . |
| 45 | MENTION the energy crisis and what comes to mind ? |
| 46 | Well , I said , he 'd always had what he called Hinterland ( laughter here from his wife , Edna , across the room ) — not just politics , but poetry , and opera , and painting , and what appears to be a mastery of half a dozen languages , and his family . |
| 47 | The sight , for instance , of a fat wrestler dressed in a bright open kimono and what appears to be a black chastity belt sitting on the train reading a comic book . |
| 48 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 49 | The sleeve of ‘ Elevation ’ contains a map of Scotland , which is nice ; the actual music is busy dancefloor chaos with some weird operatic humming and what appears to be an entire hockey team shouting ‘ Yo ! ’ at various points . |
| 50 | An extension of ‘ Justify My Love ’ with a sandpapered down rhythm , yet more breathless ‘ Vogue ’ -style commentary and what appears to be the sound of squeaky bedsprings . |
| 51 | This approach , Elliott and Ebbutt argue , stems from HMI 's use of prespecified criteria and what appears to be the use of a check-list by them . |
| 52 | The mobile ALCAN unit would seem to be most mobile — looking at the background it would appear to be parked outside either Safeway or Gateway as there is a ‘ Y ’ and what appears to be part of an ‘ A ’ visible on the store front ! |
| 53 | Tablets in Linear A have been found at Knossos , Mallia , Phaistos , Agia Triadha , Tylissos , Palaikastro , Arkhanes , Zakro , and what seems to be the site of the temple archive chamber at Khania . |
| 54 | And what seems to be happening is that we 're gradually remembering people we know in other regions and |
| 55 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 56 | As for rugby … well , nothing quite so glaring , yet still enough to provoke a creeping unease about affairs at the highest international level , whether it concerns incomplete accounts for the 1987 World Cup ; unfulfilled profit projections , by a huge margin , with disturbing outline accounts emanating from the 1991 event ; and what seem to be , at the time of writing , so many unanswered questions about the 1995 World Cup . |
| 57 | Alas , they were not safe , and what happened to them has been a matter of considerable argument . |
| 58 | And what happened to this warning Bernard was supposed to have passed on to Bailey ? ’ |
| 59 | And what happened to the seal ? |
| 60 | Yes that 's right , and what happened to that ? |