Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] what [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |
| 2 | While waiting I tried to imagine what she might have been thinking . |
| 3 | I tried to think what I might be prepared to do to achieve this and concluded almost anything . |
| 4 | The old man had sunk to his knees , so , ignoring the Blackshirt on the pavement , I tried to rescue what I could from my medicine case and give him some first aid . |
| 5 | and you see then I started thinking what I should of done when I , like everyone else , thinking what I should of done |
| 6 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 7 | I kept wondering what you 'd look like without your shirt . ’ |
| 8 | And so I had to do what I could ; I … |
| 9 | Having created my opposition , I had to decide what I would do to them . |
| 10 | And I had to decide what I should say … |
| 11 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 12 | In my heart I knew he was dead , but I wanted to hear what she would say … |
| 13 | She agreed to do what she could to help . |
| 14 | She tried to guess what he might have found out about Sabine Jourdain that did not hinge on her death . |
| 15 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 16 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to have no chance of a baby of one 's own . |
| 17 | Lying awake at night and listening to the moaning of the wind and the howling of the dogs , she tried to imagine what it could possibly be like to give herself to her cousin , a man nearly ten years older than herself . |
| 18 | She tried to think what she should do . |
| 19 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 20 | I think she 'd guessed what I 'd really come about and was sort of savouring it , waiting to see how I 'd approach the subject . |
| 21 | ‘ She was so very young , yet she seemed to understand what it could be like , being denied the one thing you wanted . |
| 22 | When the rumour reached Gabriel she began to realize what she would say to John Coffin . |
| 23 | She had done what nobody could have expected her to do . |
| 24 | She had done what she could . |
| 25 | She had rehearsed what she would say . ) |
| 26 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 27 | He had so manipulated the situation that if she wanted to do what she could for the twins she had no alternative but to agree to his terms . |
| 28 | He agreed to do what he could . |
| 29 | He tried to remember what they used to listen to but the names that came were too embarrassingly ancient to be spoken in public , even to William . |
| 30 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |