Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , reckoned America 's lawmakers , these bosses know most about what needs to be done — never mind that they got the firm into trouble in the first place . |
| 2 | In me the need to talk is a primary impulse , and I ca n't help saying right off what comes to my tongue . |
| 3 | The real problem is , as the Carnegie Foundation has realized since establishing the Ageing Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1982 ( Pifer and Bronte , 1986 ) , that we know surprisingly little about what happens to a society and its economy when its age structure changes significantly . |
| 4 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 5 | ‘ I care too much about what happens to this family . |
| 6 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 7 | Noticing the creative/fantasy element in their talk , the teacher encouraged them , once the castle was finished , to make up a story together about what happened in the castle , while she wrote their ideas down for them . |
| 8 | She is bothered only about what happens in Tory Lancashire . |
| 9 | They 're designed to take the heat out of the dispute by getting the husband and wife to talk sense rather than war , especially about what happens to the kids and the money . |
| 10 | If you refuse then I 'll go after him regardless of what happens to Mobuto . |
| 11 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 12 | Ace looked up from where she was starting to fit the parts together into what looked like a home-made machine gun . |
| 13 | These were jumbled together with what looked like pieces of electrical — or electronic — equipment , circuit boards , plasticised grips , LCD read-outs . |
| 14 | His hands were tightly bound together with what felt like bootlaces . |
| 15 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 16 | Anyway , Filmer and Daffodil left the races together in what looked like her own car , with a chauffeur . ’ |
| 17 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 18 | The workmanship was very fine , depicting a lioness and a vixen at ease together on what looked like a sleigh . |
| 19 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 20 | But that wo n't stop him joining an expected 200,000 supporters in Little Rock tonight for what promises to be the biggest election party ever seen . |
| 21 | When the days grew longer in what passes for spring on that windy plateau , we used to go into Lincoln on our days off and have lunch in the Naafi Club . |
| 22 | A truce signed on Saturday by Serb , Croat and Muslim communities has failed to hold amid persisting violent opposition by groups opposed to the state breaking away from what remains of Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Nigel was on his knees brushing the soil away from what looked like a green glass bottle . |
| 24 | Smiling , sparkling , with a new hairstyle and cheeky short skirt , she looked relieved … relieved to be away from what appears to be an uncomfortable , stifling relationship with the Prince of Wales . |
| 25 | You 've turned us that route because your Government have switched away from what matters from British people that we represent . |
| 26 | The mood of the crowd was turning to anger against those responsible for taking the children of South Ronaldsay away on what appeared to be very flimsy evidence , which had not been checked out through the appropriate channels . |
| 27 | However , the SPO 's electoral prospects apparently had been damaged by Draskovic 's earlier calls , much toned down during the campaign , for redrawing Serbia 's borders to include parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia : many voters were frightened away by what sounded like a call for civil war . |
| 28 | Hunter Square can not possibly be this type of space — it has to generate activity as a result of life spilling into it from buildings around , rather like what happens in Covent Garden . |
| 29 | Recent developments in modelling cognitive processes on computers have changed the situation quite dramatically and there is now a realistic chance of being able to produce models of the way cognitive processes are carried out that are sufficiently precise and detailed for them to be tested properly against what happens in the brain ( McNaughton and Morris 1987 ) . |
| 30 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |