Example sentences of "[verb] what the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to know what the first three digits are . ’ |
| 2 | Once more a terrible curiosity overcame him , to know what the third girl looked like . |
| 3 | What was , does anybody know what the first term was ? |
| 4 | " I do n't know what the next step will be but someone will make the breakthrough " said Cadogan . |
| 5 | ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring . |
| 6 | As I say , providing this is the second , does n't matter what the first one was . |
| 7 | generated or whatever , who do you wish to pay to , and we have four erm electricity board , the gas board , the er er er credit card and the , ca n't remember what the fourth one is , you simply say I wan na pay number four how much do you wish to pay to the Royal Bank of Scotland and you say how much you wish to pay in , er in pence and it immediately says you wish to pay blah blah blah it will be done . |
| 8 | I 'd be very interested to hear what the next rumour is … but I do n't really have anything to say . |
| 9 | I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . " |
| 10 | Everyone who has watched a loved one go through the experience of a major and dangerous operation will understand what the next few weeks were like . |
| 11 | It is most unlikely that without the reformulation a hearer would have even understood what the first segment was about . |
| 12 | Can you guess what the last one word was gon na be ? |
| 13 | This is often confused with a lot of idealistic nonsense about the inevitability of progress , often coupled with ignorant nonsense about evolution " violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics " ( those that belong to the half of the educated population that , according to the novelist C. P. Snow , know what the Second Law is , will realize that it is no more violated by evolution than it is violated by the growth of a baby ) . |
| 14 | We always know what the next step in our lives should be — which area of our lives needs to be resolved or changed — and we need to find the courage and self-love to start moving . |
| 15 | You know what the next level up is after megabyte . |
| 16 | And , having watched the recent coal fiasco , we all know what the next step is once an unwanted raw material has been identified ; you stop its production . |
| 17 | One part of a sentence may indicate what the second part is likely to be . |
| 18 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 19 | I knew what the next request would be : not to visit him again . |
| 20 | You will get the lazy child who copies what the next child is doing and these copiers must be helped to think for themselves . |
| 21 | I wonder what the next chapter is about ? ’ |
| 22 | So far no action has been taken against travellers refusing requests to stub-out their cigarettes , and the campaign group is waiting to see what the next move will be . |
| 23 | As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present . |
| 24 | The doctrine is that whenever you are faced with a decision , you always follow what the last person who was faced with the same decision did . |
| 25 | After Dan Salmon 's funeral , Charlie tried to read the Daily Chronicle every morning in the hope of discovering what the second battalion , Royal Fusiliers , were up to and where his father might be . |
| 26 | You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like . |
| 27 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 28 | No one can say what the next century will bring . |
| 29 | Who knows what the next generation will do ? |
| 30 | God knows what the next move is . |