Example sentences of "and what [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er he also , everything was used , they were made out of gas piping and what got the piping in certain lengths and there 's always a bit , a small bit about a foot left over , he made these into gas pokers . |
| 2 | She 's only just gone down , after givin' me her life story and what 'appened at her granddad 's funeral when a wheel came off the 'earse . |
| 3 | And what crossed my mind |
| 4 | And what followed to capitalise on this the next day ? |
| 5 | His party made their way on to the airfield without difficulty and what followed was a foretaste of Paddy Mayne 's style . |
| 6 | Hateley instantly exploited the error , rolling the ball back to Ian Ferguson and what followed was hell for defender Sergei Fokine . |
| 7 | That and what followed . |
| 8 | And what followed was neither surprise nor mystery to her . |
| 9 | But from somewhere in the fog of received wisdom and what passed for it , struggling to be heard above the sound of cracking whips , a persistent and unrepentant voice relayed a subversive message . |
| 10 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 11 | ‘ Time Passeth ’ , yet , but poetic values are untouched by the passing of time and what existed for and moved the man Tennyson , still exists to move man today . |
| 12 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 13 | ‘ They used their failure to get sponsorship as an excuse to get out , ’ says Mario with understandable bitterness , and what hurt him most was that they strung him along until well into 1976 , despite the fact that he could easily have had another drive . |
| 14 | The book gives readers a rare insider 's view of the Waffen-SS — why young men volunteered , and what kept even section-strength units together in desperate situations . |
| 15 | We will let you know in the September magazine just how good the Ventures were and what went on . |
| 16 | It is a rebirth of the soul and what went before however grievous is erased . |
| 17 | Every few yards was a different world around which a curtain of leaves was drawn , and what went on there was hidden from all else . |
| 18 | Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on . |
| 19 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 20 | He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion . |
| 21 | ‘ The truth is , Harry , Rex is obsessed by that car crash twenty years ago and what led up to it . |
| 22 | And what took place on Neville 's Island that foggy November weekend , no-one who witnessed it would ever forget … |
| 23 | ‘ And what took you back there after your visit to Rhodes ? ’ |
| 24 | If there voting on then it 's traditional , point of order during the speech , thank you very much and what took me so long . |
| 25 | I had seen only one other porno film before , a miserable five-minute affair in grainy black and white in Tangiers , and what surprised me about two of the three films was the quality of the finished product . |
| 26 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 27 | The source of the smoke turned out to be a huge cast-iron incinerator behind the house which had been crammed full of papers and what seemed to be old clothes . |
| 28 | Matata built a fire over which we cooked a supper of beans and rice while he caught a fish with a piece of string and what seemed very little else . |
| 29 | trickled down , Jack could see a boy with oriental features and what seemed to be a rain-soaked face . |
| 30 | There was a further link with editors , not such a happy one , for false reports and rumours were constantly appearing , and what seemed to be a campaign of vilification of the police . |