Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] what i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , the hon. Gentleman has not grasped what I implied . |
| 2 | Characteristically , the right hon. Gentleman has totally misquoted what I said . |
| 3 | I 'd better see what I looked like . |
| 4 | She seemed not to notice what I realised almost at once — that Lili 's memory differed , not in essentials , but in flavour , from her own . |
| 5 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 6 | ‘ I was so amazed by it all , I had to play the video on the team coach coming home to confirm what I thought — that Ipswich won with their only effort on target . |
| 7 | She must have briefly feared what I had hoped for . |
| 8 | I did not connect what I had happened upon with love . |
| 9 | ‘ You did not see what I saw . ’ |
| 10 | I give the hon. Gentleman the benefit of the doubt and assume that he did not hear what I said , not once but twice , perhaps because of the noise coming from his hon. Friend the Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , seated beside him , who referred to 236 admissions . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman did not hear what I said . |
| 12 | One might be doing what can also be done by whispering ‘ Do not believe what I said to George ’ ; the other might have winked to say ‘ We are being watched ’ . |
| 13 | I did n't care what I said to him . |
| 14 | I was a marvellous wife and he was proud of me , he did n't care what I did — I could become Lord Mayor of London for all he cared — only I must never leave him . |
| 15 | Did n't care what I did . |
| 16 | You often hear managers say that : ' I 've run out of ideas on how to deal with him … ’ or ‘ she could do so much better but I just ca n't seem to make any progress … ’ or ‘ he simply did n't do what I asked … ’ |
| 17 | I tidied it up , you did n't do what I wanted first . |
| 18 | As I started to cool down , I did n't regret what I had said . |
| 19 | I hoped very much that Harvey did n't mean what I thought he night . |
| 20 | An occupational therapist stated : ‘ It did n't matter what I said , they said I could n't cope ’ , and a physiotherapist recalled that : ‘ His parting words were ‘ Nobody will accept you as a physio , no school 's going to accept you . ’ ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It did n't matter what I thought yesterday . ’ |
| 22 | So it did n't matter what I got as long as you got a |
| 23 | It did n't matter what I bought ; it still would n't have satisfied the continual , gnawing desire for more . ’ |
| 24 | It did n't matter what I answered because Vlado , according to plan , translated as he thought fit . |
| 25 | He said I neglected things , it did n't matter what I did it was never good enough . " |
| 26 | Well I did n't get what I wanted to get . |
| 27 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 28 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 29 | It was strange really because I did n't know what I wanted to do . |
| 30 | So anyway I eventually decided I still did n't know what I wanted to do , but I was aware that the beginnings and ends of lessons were a bit of a mess , so the idea was to film that . |