Example sentences of "[prep] what [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over one and a half million cubic metres of ash were swept out of what remained of the town . |
| 2 | Hugo had been the privileged one , his mother an earl 's daughter , his father a baronet and a distinguished soldier , possessor of the Berowne name , inheritor of what remained of the Berowne money . |
| 3 | A layer of cloud had drifted in to take the warmth out of what remained of the day ; the wind tore it occasionally , leaving rags of blue . |
| 4 | The Doctor hopped nimbly forward , careful not to disturb the fragile balance of what remained of the structure . |
| 5 | The thatch of what remained of the subsided roof was streaked with the dark green of lichen . |
| 6 | Ferranti was unsure of what to make of the feverish stock market speculation . |
| 7 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 8 | Left , the exterior of The Pen and Parchment , Stratford-upon-Avon : Georgian windows masked by large blinds on the left , with what remains of the Georgian barn on the right . |
| 9 | The housing conditions of Britain 's underclass , who are now largely housed in what remains of the council sector , were described by the report of the Archbishop 's Commission , Faith in the City ( Church House Publishing , 1985 ) , in the following graphic terms . |
| 10 | I 'm greatly encouraged by the recent upsurge of interest in what remains of the Caledonian pine forest ( ‘ Great Wood of Caledon ’ September ) . |
| 11 | It was best not to wonder , for I faced a long journey in what remained of the Maggot 's plane . |
| 12 | In what remained of the once-great Richardson clan , Sam was the closest that they had to brains . |
| 13 | One of the rusting iron pipes fastened to the shed wall and apparently coming from what remained of the old boilerhouse inside , had a plate affixed to it , near the stump of what must have been a water stop valve . |
| 14 | Dad had often spoken about the Railway Hotel just across the road from what remained of the station , and how he used to play the battered old piano and have a sing-song with his pals . |
| 15 | He took a fruit gum from what remained of the tube . |
| 16 | The butcher flips over what remains of the body , a torso with no back or limbs . |
| 17 | During this period control of the Crown over what remained of the Forest administration dwindled away . |
| 18 | After the first partition of Poland in 1772 Danzig remained independent but tied to what remained of the Polish state by trade and treaty . |
| 19 | More needs to be known about what becomes of the babies of very young mothers in care themselves . |
| 20 | For several months before the Ashleys moved in , the locals of Remaisnil speculated about what to expect of the new English châtelaine . |
| 21 | It was decided to scrape off what remained of the scale , using a hoe and then pan-scourers . |
| 22 | Alexei dragged his coat off what remained of the lantern pole . |
| 23 | For what becomes of the marriage between two 70-year-olds seeking companionship but with no thoughts of sexual intercourse , let alone family ? |
| 24 | I wondered what he would say if I should remark that just outside the right-hand frame there lay a disused water wheel , and that the low wall of the ruined house had a hollow place where it was comfortable to sit , shaded by what remained of the pigeon tower . |