Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the hijack was a plot hatched between the two presenters to fox listeners , some of whom phoned to find out what was going on . |
| 2 | You present a highly intriguing challenge , Miss Shannon Lea — and I intend to find out what lurks beneath that icy-cool exterior . ’ |
| 3 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 4 | I tried to play back what we 'd been saying . |
| 5 | I tried to work out what my father would have done in the same circumstances and came to the conclusion that he would have taken what he so often called ‘ a bold step ’ . |
| 6 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 7 | I want to realize exactly what you have envisioned . ’ |
| 8 | I want to find out what happened . |
| 9 | I want to find out what they 're up to . ’ |
| 10 | I want to find out what people are saying , yes I 'll come to you in just a second about internment . |
| 11 | wanted this meeting to take place , I want to find out what the design philosophy is , long-term future-wise , and also , I want to get into their detailed design , so to try and establish how they determine the size of sh even simple things like pinion carved diameter , which dictates |
| 12 | So I want to I want to work out what 's involved there , I 'll go at something like twenty per cent , so it 'll come out about twenty pound fifty something |
| 13 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to know exactly what happened that morning . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I want to know exactly what you are doing here . |
| 17 | But I want to know exactly what 's really going on here . |
| 18 | But then I began to wonder just what I was going to write . |
| 19 | As we drew nearer to the German frontier I began to wonder exactly what ‘ frontier ’ meant in a frontierless continent . |
| 20 | I dreaded to discover just what symptom of drug dependency I was witnessing , and wondered if I should shout for the big Jackson Chatterton to come and rescue me , but then Rickie turned his terrified gaze on to me . |
| 21 | Then I try to work out what was good about it , and maybe try and copy the outfit a bit . |
| 22 | I went to put back what he had somebody take out . |
| 23 | However I fail to see firstly what you are trying to prove with your figures . |
| 24 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 25 | Like you know I had to think well what the hell am I going to do with her now , you know , and , you know , get her out of this mischief , and out of that mischief and you know , from bashing her baby brother up , and you know . |
| 26 | I had to figure out what she was saying . |
| 27 | I had to find out what had happened . |
| 28 | I had to find out what commissions she had which would have to be cancelled . |
| 29 | You , David and I need to sort out what we need to do to implement it |
| 30 | I need to state clearly what the book is not . |