Example sentences of "what a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. What a stinker you have posed me ! |
| 2 | ‘ What a day you 've brought with you ! |
| 3 | She ran , ran from the memory of her own besottedness with this man , painfully aware what a fool she had made of herself before him , how she had opened her heart to him . |
| 4 | Lord , what a fool she 'd made of herself ! |
| 5 | ‘ What a pity they 've set up here . |
| 6 | What a pity you seem to have inherited that from me . ’ |
| 7 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 8 | ‘ What a pity he had to go out . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What a pity he has to wear specs , ’ said Barry 's Mum . |
| 10 | I said the first thing that came into my mind , but once I 'd had time to think everything through I realised what a mistake I 'd made . |
| 11 | She loved me all right and I was her only son , but oh , what a struggle she had to show ii . |
| 12 | And what a pair we 've got — there 's some excellent readers ' games , a brilliant tribute to the classic Arkanoid , a well-wild adventure , and two of the classiest arcade outings of all time ! |
| 13 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 14 | What a relief we 'd won the war . |
| 15 | ‘ What a mess we have made . ’ |
| 16 | Ee , what a mess they 've left you , Ann . |
| 17 | If you do n't press your arrow you 'll see what a mess you 've created in your document ! |
| 18 | ‘ You , God , are my brother 's keeper , and look what a mess you have made of the job ! ’ |
| 19 | What a mess she had made of it , by her own confession ! |
| 20 | the minute I saw what a mess she 'd made |
| 21 | Their underlying feeling is that Frank Williams has blundered badly and they are saying : ‘ What a mess he has made of it all ! ’ |
| 22 | WHAT a lot we 've got ! |
| 23 | And what a lot they 've got ! |
| 24 | ‘ What a lot you 've learnt ! |
| 25 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 26 | And what a start they 've made ! |
| 27 | The integrity of a community 's conception of fairness requires that the political principles necessary to justify the legislature 's assumed authority be given full effect in deciding what a statute it has enacted means . |
| 28 | What a world he 's got himself into now ! |
| 29 | And what a programme they have arranged : three matches in four days in Romania in June , followed immediately by two matches in Rome , including a Test in each country . |
| 30 | What a cheek he 's got ! |