Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] what [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and they asked me what I was laughing at ; and of course I could n't say their son-in-law was so ugly , so I said : |
| 2 | She asked me what I was doing there . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 4 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 5 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 6 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 7 | He simply stood still saying nothing until the cries died away , and then told them what they were waiting for , and that he expected little more fighting . |
| 8 | So what are the three important things for me yesterday were the Aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience contact so I told them what I 'm gon na tell them . |
| 9 | If she told them what she was doing they would probably support her , probably do as good a job for her as they did for Nina . |
| 10 | I had to account for every penny I spent , but he never told me what he was spending . |
| 11 | Her husband chased us in a jeep , and the oscillations of the basket told him what I was doing to his wife , and the poor man was jealous . ’ |
| 12 | I wanted to be sure I could establish myself , become ‘ somebody ’ , before I told him what I was doing . |
| 13 | So he 's got all his bricks up virtually I think he said , but I ai n't worried about it cos I 'll get rid of them somewhere and I helped him out , I sold this car and , and told him what I was doing and he come I 've just the thing for you , just cos was having bricks like your dad 's , the sand grain sort of brick , you know . |
| 14 | I just hope — he told her what he was thinking about poetry — and history — and things like that . |
| 15 | Every sound , every movement , told her what he was doing … the shoes placed neatly side by side , the braces flicked down over his shoulders , the trousers carefully folded and laid across the back of the wicker chair , his footsteps coming to her over the creaking floorboards ; every sound , every movement … he was touching her now , warm , tickling , smooth , his naked body moving up and down against her , his voice in her ear , soft and loving , fingers probing , his mouth on hers ; the gasp of excitement when he entered her , jabbing , hard , growing excited . |
| 16 | He told us what he was going to do and we knew some people were going to get killed , but that 's just life . |
| 17 | ‘ I asked you what you were doing at Sister Island , ’ Deacon Billingsley said threateningly . |
| 18 | I asked you what you were doing here … why you did n't send the police … ’ |
| 19 | ( They showed me how deep they had advanced into Russia and I showed them what we were going to do in the West . |
| 20 | When the old woman and the boy were in the summerhouse they looked up and smiled and showed her what they were making . |
| 21 | But then he asked her what she was knitting , so she had to answer him , and after that she agreed to let him tap her chest with his rubber hammer , peer into her ears with his pencil light , and press the back of her tongue with one of Mrs Hollidaye 's silver apostle teaspoons . |
| 22 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 23 | I asked her what she was going to do now . |
| 24 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a secret , ’ Nick said when she asked him what they were laughing about . |
| 26 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 27 | Years later , in exile , his former tutor , Augustin Filon , found him leaning against a window of the house in Chislehurst and asked him what he was looking at . |
| 28 | Lili asked him what he was looking at . |
| 29 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 30 | Watson said he asked him what he was talking about ; North brushed him off . |