Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people leave desperately trying to stop the ringing in their ears and wondering what the hell happened . |
| 2 | Most people leave desperately trying to stop the ringing in their ears and wondering what the hell happened . |
| 3 | The Recommendations look to the future and describe what the author of the report thinks should be done about the problem that has been the subject of so much investigation . |
| 4 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 5 | You must penetrate the disguise and discover what the question is really about . |
| 6 | She wanted to hear interviews with other survivors and to know what the emergency services had to say — the fire fighters who rushed to the scene , the doctors who performed the operations . |
| 7 | However , no amount of relationship building will replace hard work and accomplishing what the public relations campaign set out to do . |
| 8 | is that until we get the final figures , final settlements it 's very difficult for them to , to put actual the budget figures , but we can still actually come back at those in February and find what the |
| 9 | Hunt down traitors and find what the King wants . |
| 10 | Tonight , we look at other memorable programmes from the archives and ask what the future holds ? |
| 11 | Again , however , he spoke in general terms about greater competitiveness and supplying what the market wants but failed to suggest what steps he intended to take . |
| 12 | When asked to clarify his intended future playing policy , he said : ‘ Have a look and see what the team does in Spain , see how it plays and then we 'll talk about it . ’ |
| 13 | Right , so now we 've got round to what we can do for the casualty , let's have a look and see what the body 's trying to do here and then we 'll say how you 'll help them a bit more . |
| 14 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 15 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 16 | This is to keep sight of the positives for so often professionals working with very vulnerable elderly people focus on the pathology and forget what the client may have going for her/him . |
| 17 | It 'll be worse now , in retrospect , it 'll worse phoning Amy up at that moment and asking what the name was . |
| 18 | Isabel stared up at the royal castle high on its hill overlooking the town and wondered what the grim stone fortress would mean to her . |
| 19 | He would have survived if he had accepted the plan in the first place and done what the Corporation had wanted him to do instead of putting forward his own counter proposals . |
| 20 | MPC is the marginal private cost of films and reflects what the resources could earn for producers if they were employed in the meals industry . |
| 21 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 22 | Using this assumption , combined with general knowledge of the world , the receiver can reason from the literal , semantic meaning of what is said to the pragmatic meaning and induce what the sender is intending to do with his or her words . |
| 23 | Do the procedures allow each side to have its say and know what the other side are saying ? |
| 24 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |
| 25 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 26 | On the other hand , if there are no others in the field , an offer of , say , 2½ per cent less than the asking price could be made ; and if the house is somewhat overpriced , try an offer between 5 and 10 per cent less than the asking price and see what the reaction is . |
| 27 | During his campaign Mr Pink appeared in national newspapers , on television and wrote what the tribunal heard was a ‘ torrent of words , ’ including letters to the Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Still she hesitated and at last he said , ‘ Think about it , talk to your parents and to Jennifer and see what the reaction is . |
| 29 | Probably as the snorting monsters emerged from the Black Hole of Balcombe in a cloud of smoke and steam , a merry crowd of villagers who watched from the top of the embankment gave a wary cheer and wondered what the world was coming to ! |
| 30 | My plea : give the Hesketh Hubbard society or similar a stand again so that people can escape the hurly-burly to an oasis of calm and do what the like best : draw ! |