Example sentences of "what [vb mod] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Threarah waited politely for a few moments and then he said , " Well , now , and what ought we to do about it , I wonder ? |
| 2 | ‘ What ought we to do ? ’ said Fenella , a bit more loudly than she had meant . |
| 3 | " What ought I to know ? |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , what ought I to do ? ’ said Flavia . |
| 5 | There was throughout his life a long conflict between what may one may call a sort of scientific naturalism in his attitude to the world , and the impulse to hypostatize his ideals , to create out of his ideals erm ideal beings of some kind , and so to worship . |
| 6 | This power is still available to the police today and three questions arise in relation to it : first , what is the meaning of breach of the peace ? ; secondly , when may the police act ? ; and thirdly , what may they do ? |
| 7 | Now if he is kidnapped , what may we deduce ? |
| 8 | The article enthused about the return to the norm , but what may we ask is the norm ? |
| 9 | If the direct comparison with human beings , defective or otherwise , is not to be the touchstone of our treatment of animals ; if they are , as I have argued , sui generis primitive beings , then what may we do with them ? |
| 10 | We have the money for the current week and for future weeks in our hands , we know come what may we can rely on our Family Allowance . |
| 11 | BEEDING : What may we hold when we are within ? |
| 12 | ‘ And what may I practise on ? ’ she asked . |
| 13 | She was going on to add something more , when a cold voice behind me said , ‘ What may you be after ? ’ |
| 14 | What must we do ? |
| 15 | What must we do to get our supporters to turn out on the day ? |
| 16 | What must we do to firm up the opinion of those who almost support us ? |
| 17 | And what must we do to neutralise the opposition ? |
| 18 | Now for that coke to burn in this furnace what must we add ? |
| 19 | ‘ What must we do to travel with you ? ’ asked Taliesin , and for a moment Fael-Inis did not reply . |
| 20 | ‘ And what must we not say to Feargal ? ’ he asked from the doorway . |
| 21 | So what must we have started out with . |
| 22 | just finished up with four X cubed minus X times its differential so what must we have started off we differentiated something and it was very very close to this very |
| 23 | What must we have started off with here to finish up with with that ? |
| 24 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ What must she feel about you ? |
| 26 | What must she do , what is it five hours a week ? |
| 27 | The comprehension scales begin with items concerned with the extent to which a child associates a word or phrase with affective or situational meaning , and proceed to a point where ‘ ideational content goes well beyond the concrete evidence ’ — for example , ‘ The little boy has spilt his dinner ; what must he do ? ’ |
| 28 | What must he now think ? |
| 29 | What must his thoughts have been ? |
| 30 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |