Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] what [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of the last occasions I saw him , I mentioned my dealings with Mountbatten and asked what he thought of him . |
| 2 | So if you like your fingerboards more cambered , either buy an Austin Special or badger Chandler and suggest what I did — that they offer a choice … |
| 3 | He wandered widely throughout Scotland during his university days in Aberdeen and explored what he called ‘ the desolate isles of the west ’ . |
| 4 | Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business . |
| 5 | The move followed the completion of a report , commissioned by Col. René Emilio Ponce , the military chief of staff , and drafted by junior officers , which criticized the conduct of the military operations against the FMLN and attacked what they described as corrupt practices by senior officers , the vagaries of the promotion system and the lack of accountability of commanders . |
| 6 | A majority of the deputies in parliament rallied to support Pflimlin and reject what they interpreted as de Gaulle 's scarcely concealed blackmail . |
| 7 | That is to say , they accost the more naive members of the lobby on their way back from meeting Mr Ingham and ask what he said . |
| 8 | At last September 's World Forestry Congress , held in Paris , the Vice President of WWF , Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands , called on France to " set up a biosphere reserve in Guiana and practise what it preached " . |
| 9 | Sooner or later she would have to stand before the Mother Superior and confess what she had done , but even that awful prospect could n't quell her joy just then . |