Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 erm In principle it should be possible to be able to speak into a microphone , or to write on a pad , with a pencil , and the computer would be connected to the microphone or the pad and would take in and interpret what you 've done , without having to learn this rather clumsy method of putting things in one letter at a time .
2 One day , the Head of Sixth Form — a teacher called Don Palmer — came in and asked what we were doing .
3 Lanre Oke , defending , said Sandiford , 29 , was in the robing room at Southend Crown Court when Laurence Marshall came in and asked what he was doing .
4 Let's have a look in and see what you 've done to the poor old thing .
5 You get some lemonade with cyanide in it and some Coke with cyanide in and see what she drinks .
6 But , firms are beginning to open up and give us an opportunity actually to take youngsters in and see what it 's all about .
7 I 'll call in and see what he wanted before I go , ’ I lied .
8 I mean it 's an ideal job you 'd be able to fit a round in and do what you want to do .
9 At 10.30 the men can stand down and do what they like — study , read , watch television — until midnight when , if all is quiet , they turn in .
10 Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy .
11 Groups of men had been working ceaselessly since the battle to tear them down and salvage what they could of their contents .
12 They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura .
13 you 've got to put it down and say which one it is .
14 Well I used the word to mo er in a report I was writing years ago it was ten years ago and I knew what I meant but I had n't sat down and defined what I meant , perhaps I should have done .
15 We got our heads right round it , whereas before , like , half the time we was n't even bothered what was recorded or how it was done , it was always bang , get a groove , put it down and see what we can do with it later . ’
16 If you could quickly scan down and see what somebody 's done and the levels of competency they 've achieved , it helps you think that why are n't they doing the job , it might not be a trainee , it might be somebody else .
17 Go over it aloud and learn what it 's about before the lesson .
18 Attlee and his ministers , despite being a radically intentioned government , did not embark on a reform of the Civil Service because they knew the wartime machine personally and liked what they saw .
19 Finally , a very sweet nurse came along and asked what I was doing there , as I obviously did not belong . ’
20 Claudia must have seen something like this many times — dances , endless dances , meaning what ? perhaps meaning nothing until you come along and ask what they mean .
21 and I , I mean , we could all go along and say what we want and what our needs are but that 's not what we 're talking about .
22 ‘ I intend to go along and hear what they have got to say , ’ he said .
23 ‘ Everyone is welcome to come along and hear what he has to say , ’ said Marjorie .
24 Denis Smith says come along and enjoy what they 're putting on and they can guarantee they will be working hard
25 Give the children a simple message and ask them to pass it along and see what it becomes at the end .
26 Sometime in the next two to five years they would expect to get together and do what they did with Concorde .
27 They were with Mr Mandela until 10pm , much of the time he and Mrs Sisulu simply recalling their old days together and recounting what they had done all these years .
28 Burger put the tips of his fingers together and considered what he would say .
29 Aberdeen , erm and get together and decide what they want , discussing dates
30 Then take time to look at them all together and see what they tell you .
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