Example sentences of "what [vb -s] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process they are vigorously engaged in discovering what belongs to them and what belongs to others . |
| 2 | Those who have paid special attention to the interactions of parents and very young children say that the confusion between what belongs to self and what belongs to others applies with even more force to feelings than it does to bodies , and for very much longer . |
| 3 | Those who have paid special attention to the interactions of parents and very young children say that the confusion between what belongs to self and what belongs to others applies with even more force to feelings than it does to bodies , and for very much longer . |
| 4 | These offer a sound foundation in knowledge and understanding of what contributes to health and nursing care . |
| 5 | This is not surprising , because although capitalists and socialists are usually reluctant to spell out their plans for global domination , Green politics are largely based on a straightforward conception of planet earth and what needs to de done at the global level to sustain human life on it . |
| 6 | This is because the sentence itself only partly determines what happens to offenders . |
| 7 | I 'm going to look at what happens to helium at low temperatures , and in particular I 'm going to see what it does when it 's stuck onto carbon , which it will do very readily . |
| 8 | Okay , what happens to metals ? |
| 9 | I am sure the Barons of the Exchequer would be interested in the profits to be made in the king 's prison , and in what happens to money entrusted to you . ’ |
| 10 | What happens to d ? |
| 11 | This could be termed an uncomely version of what happens to Patrick , whose wife discovers that , at long last , she is pregnant . |
| 12 | Consumers may not care what happens to others but they are certainly worried about the costs they pay themselves . |
| 13 | So what happens to figures , that is , configurations of points , under inversion ? |
| 14 | And we know what happens to commanders bereft of good intelligence . |
| 15 | I 'm reading Sense and Sensibility and I must find out what happens to Marianne . |
| 16 | The Labour Research Department — not connected with the Labour Party — has been investigating what happens to ministers when they lose office . |
| 17 | We 've mounted a whole series of experiments related to finding out what happens to pyre goods in the fire when they 're placed with the body . |
| 18 | We 've mounted a whole series of experiments related to finding out what happens to pyre goods in the fire when they 're placed with the body . |
| 19 | He has definitively discovered what happens to socks and underwear once the wearers have been persuaded to shed them , how co-habiting men and women care for their most intimate garments , and how couples come to joint terms with the washing machine — or fail to . |
| 20 | Do you know what happens to sewage in Brussels ? |
| 21 | What happens inside metal plates in response to an applied potential or for that matter what happens to charges inside any material ? |
| 22 | Faint and incredible , the thought fitted into her mind — P'raps the old crow cares what happens to folk like the Cap'n 's nigger ? |
| 23 | What seems like a fairly harmless joke can have unfortunate consequences — as you can see in tomorrow 's reading when we find out what happens to Stewart after his fall . |
| 24 | So far , we have seen that feminists are beginning to agree on what happens to girls in mixed-sex schools ; there is a growing consensus in research that education is a powerful force in shaping relations of dominance and subordinance between the sexes . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't care what happens to Hyde . |
| 26 | WHAT HAPPENS TO SITES AND FINDS |
| 27 | WHAT HAPPENS TO COMPLAINTS |
| 28 | ‘ What happens , ’ said Mike , abruptly interested , ‘ what happens to vicars ? |
| 29 | W&M can afford to wait and see what happens to Invergordon . |
| 30 | What happens to radio batteries ? |