Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about the moths for a bit , and then someone asked what she had done with the mask . |
| 2 | And then at once , I realized what I 'd said . |
| 3 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 4 | ‘ Not , of course , that I realised what he 'd done then . |
| 5 | But years later I realised what he 'd done . |
| 6 | To cut this story short , for several more aromatherapy sessions with Charlotte , I experienced what I came to recognise as grief . |
| 7 | I knew they were discussing me in private , but I was seriously alarmed when I discovered what they had decided . |
| 8 | I was born too late and I discovered what I wanted to do too late and what I did I did too late and my death is about to come far too late . |
| 9 | I repeated what I had seen him do . |
| 10 | Well you know wha when I knew what she had to do , I thought well erm she had to walk on by herself to Annie . |
| 11 | ‘ I wish I knew what she wanted to tell me . |
| 12 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
| 13 | I knew what I had to do . |
| 14 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 15 | But I knew what I had to do , so I did it . ’ |
| 16 | And , at that time I realized what my friend had gone through , and I knew what I had gone through , and I would willingly have gone on having babies for erm out of compassion for people who could n't have children and I would have done it much more naturally ! |
| 17 | In a split second I knew what I 'd done . |
| 18 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
| 19 | If only I knew what I have done . |
| 20 | I knew what I wanted to do from then . ’ |
| 21 | I knew what I wanted to do , and first of all I asked Miss Sowerby , ‘ Any spare blankets ? ’ |
| 22 | We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter . |
| 23 | I summarised what I had learned from Froggy 's sister , and the many questions in my mind . |
| 24 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 25 | And then I remembered what she had said . |
| 26 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 27 | I remembered what you 'd said about settling down , and as it happened I met a very nice young man from Berlin , a train driver . |
| 28 | I glimpsed what she had written — nothing extraordinary except that she hoped she would soon find deliverance from her troubles . |
| 29 | So , I did what I learnt to do as a working-class woman , which was to justify why I did my work by saying , well of course it is a metaphor for all kinds of struggle , and of course it is , but actually the original reason was n't that at all . |
| 30 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |