Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 2 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 3 | ‘ Long enough to find out what we needed . |
| 4 | These small creatures are the future , they are only acting out what they will be . |
| 5 | So far most computer users still use the new technology only to do faster what they have always done before , crunch conventional numbers . |
| 6 | The old adage that you only get out what you put in becomes very meaningful and it is only too easy to miss an employee out of a list because a code has been entered incorrectly or because information is inconsistent . |
| 7 | Slavery , to Sheffield female abolitionists , was essentially unlawful ; human laws could only take away what they could create . |
| 8 | In the final analysis , the Swann Report not only put aside what it had already acknowledged about the relatively poor performance of students of Bangladesh I origin , but ignored evidence that students of Mirpuri Pakistani origin were also under performing , while students of East African Asian origin seemed to be achieving exceptionally well . |
| 9 | Mr Gummer is inclined to give a snap reply to his critics , when he would do better to check carefully what they have said . |
| 10 | I can only put down what I know to be the truth as far as I can tell . |
| 11 | Other versions are that computers only do exactly what you tell them to , and that therefore computers are never creative . |
| 12 | This article only sets out what we consider to be some of the major problems which any socialist feminist analysis of housing must confront , and raises more questions than answers . |
| 13 | Ultimately they merely carry out what we as a democratic society demand . |
| 14 | Remember that someone like yourself is going to buy it , so put down what you think is important . |
| 15 | That 's really a matter if , if anybody who 's interested enough to take on what we call co-ordination , receiving the material and then you know , telling people what letters are needed . |
| 16 | The cover of the directive features a cricketer in full protective kit , so I knew at once I had better find out what it was all about . |
| 17 | You will only find out what you need to know by really listening to what is said to you . |
| 18 | Let me just explain exactly what we do . |
| 19 | Right I 'll just explain quickly what it is then . |
| 20 | If I just read out what I was going to suggest Simon described the new system for approvals it goes something like erm , sorry it 's 9.9 , all approvals are recorded on research approval forms full stop . |
| 21 | They look at them through microscopes just to find out what they 're made of . |
| 22 | I should have cut him , just to find out what it felt like , I thought . |
| 23 | No I 'm just writing down what you what you said . |
| 24 | We can not check this independently by re-examining the original one , not because we can not re-examine the original one but because everything we can do in the way of a re-examination is just doing again what we have already done in thinking of the new sensation as relevantly similar to the old one . |
| 25 | Well certainly my job is to just outline briefly what we do . |
| 26 | I will just fill out what she wants me to do . |
| 27 | You feel you want to do something , but I just do n't what you can do |
| 28 | I mean all I I did n't I just did exactly what I was told . |
| 29 | Official trade figures need careful handling , but those who specialise in this area generally agree over what they reveal . |
| 30 | I was pleased to be invited to contribute a foreword for this new journal on technology transfer , not least because its title — Competitive Edge — so aptly sums up what we all want British industry to achieve . |