Example sentences of "[coord] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cystitis & What To Do About It |
| 2 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 3 | … to see Mr. Wats , keeper of the Apothecaries Garden of simples at Chelsey ; where there is a collection of innumerable rarities of that sort : Particularly , besids many rare annuals the Tree bearing the Jesuits bark , which had don such cures in quartans : & what was very ingenious the subterranean heate , conveyed by a stove under the Conserveatory , which was all Vaulted with brick ; so as he leaves the doores & windowes open in the hard(e)st frosts , secluding onely the snow , & c . |
| 4 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 5 | Then at about 4:58 I thought maybe I 'll just listen to the match report , there may have been a fight back … & what ya know … 3–3 ! ! |
| 6 | A sudden lapsing into silence because the speaker is unable or unwilling to complete the sentence : Had you been there-but what good would that have done ? |
| 7 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 8 | Otherwise as meaningless as any other gesture , as deeply rooted in the moment , in how one is feeling or what one has eaten or who one has been seeing . |
| 9 | Or what ? |
| 10 | Is it what is on the glass , or what is on the glass plus what is seen through the glass , or just the glass itself ? |
| 11 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 12 | Or what ? |
| 13 | The atmosphere was , however , cordial , if not convivial , and the talk was of what grandchildren were up to or what Dr So-and-so said about this or that particular problem . |
| 14 | ‘ All these things recently , I do n't know if it 's just bad luck or me being stupid or what . ’ |
| 15 | I honestly had no idea of what they might be thinking or what to make of it myself . |
| 16 | ‘ Who or what is Little Ben ? ’ |
| 17 | However , many inexperienced pilots get so thoroughly engrossed in the thermalling or what is going on elsewhere that they are temporarily ‘ switched off ’ to how they are flying . |
| 18 | Yet some twelve months after I had graduated , I was now having my first interview with my chief constable who had no idea what I had studied or what result I had achieved . |
| 19 | Any criteria for defining ‘ privileged information ’ , or what the ‘ dangers ’ are in revealing such matters as dispositions ( of manpower ) are so vaguely incorporated as to ensure that few will risk submitting an essay without approval , which might later be assessed as an ‘ improper disclosure ’ . |
| 20 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 21 | Did you just fall out of love , or what ? ’ |
| 22 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 23 | Here he could live in virtually complete seclusion , at a fraction of the cost it would take in northern Europe or Canada ; where the people were unconcerned as to who you were or what you did ; and where breathtaking vistas opened up for the seeing — both external and internal . |
| 24 | We perceive what is ‘ out there ’ or what is ‘ around us ’ as a result of the transfer of energy from objects or events to specialized parts of the body known collectively as ‘ the sensory system ’ . |
| 25 | And yet , when disaster strikes , it does n't matter where it is , or what sport is taking place , the spotlight swivels to capture the emotion , the excitement , the sadness of the moment . |
| 26 | But tennis players do n't seem to know where they are or what the weather is like . |
| 27 | Choreographers should understand that counting beats or what is called the measure of the music is not dance rhythm . |
| 28 | I think I know what this might mean , or what it might be made to mean . |
| 29 | ‘ They do n't realise the speed of the men players or what they can do with the ball . |
| 30 | ‘ But we can not give them cash limits because we have no idea how bad the weather is going to be in the winter or what particular type of ‘ flu might be coming along . |