Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I was paid twice what I get at the cafe , I still would n't bloody stick at home all day . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 3 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 4 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 5 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 6 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 7 | It had come out and I 'd said it 's what I felt at the minute . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's what I suspected at the time , but your damned gratitude is the last thing I want , Maria . ’ |
| 9 | See what he what I pay at the moment is eighty four pound for the house . |
| 10 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 11 | From what I learned at the meeting I ca n't see why he thinks I 'm up to such a task , but maybe la bête a ses raisons que la belle ne connaît pas . |
| 12 | Now write a description of " What I did at the carnival " . |
| 13 | Just what I wanted at the time , to 'elp me keep me figure tidy . |
| 14 | After all , Father left all his property to me , and as I say , that man trap is exactly what I need at the moment . |
| 15 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 16 | I did n't understand what she meant at the time , I just thought she was mad ! ’ |
| 17 | Her sensitivity at all times to what will run in Cabinet is genuine , even though she always lets colleagues know what she wants at the outset of any discussion . |
| 18 | ‘ Leaving aside what you thought at the time , and looking back , could he have driven the car to Exeter after disposing of his wife ? ’ |
| 19 | Strange how what you regard at the time as being your downfall , often turns out to be the making of you . |
| 20 | Despite what you saw at the club . |
| 21 | I did not know how he would take all this ; but at the end of the interview he rose and said , ‘ I agree entirely with what you said at the beginning . |
| 22 | For what you make at the end of the day on , on somebody 's |
| 23 | ‘ Well , assuming he did n't put himself there , which is unlikely since we know what you found at the flat , someone must have carried him there , ’ Tracey replied . |
| 24 | Interviewers can not be sure of people 's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38 . |
| 25 | The point you want to arrive at , is getting what you want at the price you can afford . |
| 26 | What you doing at the weekend Rich ? |
| 27 | These are what we took at the museum are n't they ? |
| 28 | Er and it was much easier to be living on the premises , that 's what we felt at the time . |
| 29 | Yes well quite simply , I mean we know all the replies from the bridal magazines , I mean we know what we sell at the Christmas fair and what we sell Christmas cracker-wise . |
| 30 | ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’ |