Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | that nobody understands what the other person 's role is |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | England found nobody to do what the Pakistan quickies — Wasim Akram in particular — had done to them . |
| 4 | ‘ Under the shadow of the very great crisis ’ , Lyle argued at the North West Ham Conservative Club , ‘ nobody knew what the result might have been ’ : |
| 5 | So I thought I 'd wait a year or two and let people get into the techno thing and get used to being more receptive to what it is , as opposed to what it was in ‘ 86 , when nobody knew what the term was and everybody was scared of technology . |
| 6 | Thomas was sent for tests but nobody knew what the problem was . |
| 7 | Nobody knows what the Nile perch will feed on when the haplochromines have been further reduced in biomass . |
| 8 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 9 | It is in fact something called Mad Meg 's Cairn and nobody knows what the hell it 's doing there . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Erm the answer would be no , they 've got to be sold at sometime and nobody knows what the market is going to do . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In most cases , on most issues , nobody knows what the president has decided . |
| 14 | Actually it 's a bit of a unorganised chaos nobody knows what the heck they 're doing ! |
| 15 | Well nobody knows what the rooms are like . |
| 16 | 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 … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring . |
| 18 | Exactly how this will be done remains to be seen , but one wonders what the effects will be . |
| 19 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 20 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 21 | One wonders what the factors are which cause modern uncivilised behaviour ? |
| 22 | Even so , one can almost forgive such visual austerity when one realises what the book represents : it is the most comprehensive and stimulating anthology of twentieth-century ideas about art that has yet appeared . |
| 23 | If , for instance , no one mentions what the pay will be , it is up to you to ask that question and obtain a satisfactory answer . |
| 24 | No on in 1993 is likely to top the achievement of Alistair Layzell , who last week got widespread press and radio coverage for the Biblia Pauperum ( Pauper 's Bible ) , a facsimile retailing at £2,600 — a price that makes one wonder what the rich person 's version would cost . |
| 25 | If each family was to have the services of a senior and a junior counsel , the costs would be enormous , and at that stage no one knew what the position would be regarding the question of Legal Aid . |
| 26 | No one knew what the quarrel had been about and no one cared . |
| 27 | It was doubtful , he said , whether the Vietnamese government could succeed without the most generous , if not passionate , French assistance ; and yet how France 's partners within the French Union could evolve had never been defined : indeed no one knew what the French Union meant . |
| 28 | The platform 's motion was easily carried , as amended , though no one knew what the amendment was , and the bulk of the hall filed patiently out in search of cups of tea and a Bath bun . |
| 29 | If one were in possession of all those binary numbers in sequence , could one infer the highest level of program or , to put it another way , could one infer what the machine was actually up to in the sense of paying tax refunds to the citizens of London , as distinct from translating a book from English to Chinese ? |
| 30 | Think , for example , about Scottish dancing , which one comes to understand as one learns what the right steps are . |