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 . |