Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I goes what the hell 's it look like , I 'm going to sleep ! |
| 2 | that nobody understands what the other person 's role is |
| 3 | Even when a picture is used , it is not complete , it takes the form of an icon which contains what the perceiver considers matters at the time . |
| 4 | Yes , that 's right , I mean it 's that most of you , most of you can , most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffic 's like you would n't know , because you do n't know how you got there . |
| 5 | Any theory of sentence production , then , will be a theory which describes what the constructive processes are which , when applied to some thought which a speaker wishes to convey to someone else , result in the formulation and production of an appropriate sentence . |
| 6 | As it stands the districts seem to be wanting their cake and eat it in that they would like er a policy restricting development in the open countryside but they do n't want it to come with baggage that is specific which says what the exceptions should be . |
| 7 | Each unit of First Class deals with a particular topic and language area and provides a balance of language skills which reflects what the trainee will need a career in tourism . |
| 8 | Rather than rather than having a sort of under the counter scenario where er material considerations you know will be considered when it when it 's a separate planning application comes in there are there an ack there is an acknowledgement or a framework which is in a formal local plan which which identifies what the main considerations will be . |
| 9 | Newspapers would be reduced merely to printing what they are told — which means what the politicians want you to hear . |
| 10 | ( a ) which explains what the report is about ; ( b ) which provides a statement of the problem or subject of enquiry ; ( c ) which says how you interpret the problem ; ( d ) which indicates your approach to the task ; and ( e ) which explains the lay-out of your report . |
| 11 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 12 | Once the teaching unit has reached the stage of a draft computer program which does what the designer intends , together with associated notes which describe what the program offers and its possible uses in the classroom , we need to consider in more detail how to collect essential information as to what actually happens when the unit is used . |
| 13 | All of which suggests what the drafts of the poems confirm — that he knew , or wanted to know , exactly what he was doing . |
| 14 | Nobody knows what the Nile perch will feed on when the haplochromines have been further reduced in biomass . |
| 15 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 16 | It is in fact something called Mad Meg 's Cairn and nobody knows what the hell it 's doing there . |
| 17 | Mr Major told him : ‘ As a former shadow chancellor , if you do n't know that , until those things are unwound , nobody knows what the figures would be , you should not be sitting where you are . ’ |
| 18 | Erm the answer would be no , they 've got to be sold at sometime and nobody knows what the market is going to do . |
| 19 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 20 | In most cases , on most issues , nobody knows what the president has decided . |
| 21 | Actually it 's a bit of a unorganised chaos nobody knows what the heck they 're doing ! |
| 22 | Well nobody knows what the rooms are like . |
| 23 | She can do this because she understands what the enquirer is saying . |
| 24 | Now she seems to have little pain , and little hunger , although she takes what the boy gives her , and today , we have improved upon that . |
| 25 | You will get the lazy child who copies what the next child is doing and these copiers must be helped to think for themselves . |
| 26 | He , Aragorn and Théoden also state proverbs about freshness , with respectively ‘ Rede oft is found at the rising of the sun ’ , ‘ None knows what the new day shall bring him ’ , and ‘ In the morning counsels are best … ’ |
| 27 | Who knows what the costs will look like by then ? |
| 28 | But who knows what the grapevine will bear next week ? |
| 29 | Who knows what the next generation will do ? |
| 30 | According to President Clinton , quoted in the Wall Street Journal , Vice-President Al Gore is ‘ the only person to hold national office in America who knows what the gestalt of a Gigabit is ’ : the only person in any other post for that matter . |