Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a right to know what goes on behind my back . ’ |
| 2 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm just interested to know what goes on beneath that hostile little shell you present to the world , Virginia . |
| 4 | ‘ But you want to know what went on between us between Theo and me . ’ |
| 5 | And who was to know what went on in anyone else 's family ? |
| 6 | If communities can be thought of as houses , we are as concerned to discover what goes on in the bedroom , bathroom and kitchen as in the dining-room and sitting-room . |
| 7 | With currently available equipment we are not able to discover what goes on in detail in the brain when someone is speaking , though we can make guesses based on evidence such as speech errors ( ‘ slips of the tongue ’ ) and the effects on speech production of different sorts of brain damage . |
| 8 | I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes . |
| 9 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 10 | She sighed ; what the hell was she doing trying to speculate what went on behind that good-looking façade ? |
| 11 | It would not be proper or right for me to discuss what went on on the specific issues in the Cabinet and I do n't wish to do so . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , communication was simplified and rudimentary forms dominated the interactions , as those imposed upon adopted the time-old tactic of retreating into inarticulateness to conceal what goes on within their life-world . |
| 13 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |
| 14 | It means the tenant farmer 's right to decide what goes off on his land has been denied him . |
| 15 | Well , I mean , hopefully there , there 'd be at least er sort of thing erm in the summery to see what went on during the year |
| 16 | A physician , Naumann , was sent along with a farrier to see what went on at Alfort ; Sick , a surgeon , again with a farrier , was sent to Vienna , and an apothecary , Ratzburg , was sent to Leipzig to fit himself for teaching botany and chemistry . |
| 17 | Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . |
| 18 | Learn to see what follows on from the main ideas as a kind of proof . |
| 19 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 20 | The duty solicitor has to take what turns up on the day and often act immediately , particularly as one of the administrative attractions of the scheme is to help the court clear the daily list . |
| 21 | ‘ Please do n't ask me to explain what goes on in the mind of an Italian Water Board . |
| 22 | What I would say Chairman is that I will defend the right of the tenant farmers to make their own minds up , just as much as I will defend the rights of council house tenants to say what goes on in their houses . |
| 23 | But it was impossible to tell what went on behind that massive , tortured brow , perpetually corrugated as if in a continual wince and recoil from life . |
| 24 | Tucann Design & Print commissioned artist Pete West to produce what turned out to be a stunningly atmospheric portrayal of the event . |