Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [Wh det] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jennie came in and asked to see what we were doing , we were giggling so much , she would say , ‘ What are yer giggling at , yer little monkeys ? ’ |
| 2 | He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead . |
| 3 | I mean , shit , I got to know what he 's thinking , right ? |
| 4 | Occasionally she tried to rationalize what she was doing . |
| 5 | He bent to hear what she was saying , because she had a rather soft voice . |
| 6 | The moment passed , and he tried to imagine what she was going through , how it felt to her . |
| 7 | This situation only started to change in the late 19th century as more excavators tried to understand what they were finding . |
| 8 | He seemed to realize what I was getting at at last , and glanced round the ward at all the aged but fascinated faces turned in our direction . |
| 9 | They seemed to know what they were doing . |
| 10 | The young woman seemed to know what she was talking about , and Shelley suddenly felt sorry for her , in spite of her flashing Spanish beauty . |
| 11 | And sh they she was given erm some sort of oh something to put her to sleep or whatever gas and I know sh she seemed to know what she was doing but this lady that was there with her she passed out with the smell of gas in the room so she was n't much help . |
| 12 | Stapleton seemed to know what I was thinking , and said : ‘ You may think this a lonely , strange place to live , but the moors are very interesting , and we enjoy it here . |
| 13 | I went in to this fella er er er he seemed to know what I was talking about to start with |
| 14 | I consider that as far as they were concerned Mr. Winterbone appeared to them to be perfectly clear and lucid and that , as was said , he seemed to know what he was doing . |
| 15 | Ross seemed to know what he was doing — which was just as well , since it felt very weird to be travelling on what appeared to be the wrong side of the road . |
| 16 | It was all new to her , but the Indian seemed to know what he was talking about , and so she had gone along with him . |
| 17 | After a moment , she seemed to find what she was looking for and stepped up to the door . |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'd known what you were going to do , I 'd never have caught him . ’ |
| 19 | And I 'm sure I would have left the club readily and earlier if I 'd known what he was going to say later . |
| 20 | With a wry smile , Ellie admitted , ‘ It would n't have been so hard if I 'd known what he was talking about . ’ |
| 21 | She seemed to read what he was doing in an instant , but he did n't wait around to see her reaction . |
| 22 | Then she seemed to grasp what they were saying . |
| 23 | He seemed to realise what she was saying . |
| 24 | Gasping with desperate exertion , she got the canoe into the water , and leapt into it just as he seemed to realise what she was doing . |
| 25 | The children were told off , told to shut up , told to stop what they were doing and hit . |
| 26 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 27 | From November ‘ 74 he began to find what he was looking for . |
| 28 | Immacolata said it glowed prettily , the light was flattering , and this recollection passed across his mind at the same time as he registered the woman 's contorted face , her blotched cheeks and veined eyes , and began to hear what she was saying : |
| 29 | But whilst Mackenzie carried on and ended up editing the Sun , Sutton began to question what he was doing . |
| 30 | Jessamy began to realise what he was getting at . |