Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but she 's got more hair than what I got in the front . |
| 2 | Oh that 's what I got in the shop . |
| 3 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
| 4 | Yeah I was sure that 's what our team wrote down cos that 's what I wrote on the sheet |
| 5 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 6 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 7 | ‘ From … from what I gathered from the nurse it was n't as serious as they at first thought . |
| 8 | A silly man , I ca n't understand , cos you used to get in a car now what I went in the car Sunday , well it the |
| 9 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |
| 10 | That 's just what I said during the news interview , was n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ All right , I take back what I said about the schoolroom . |
| 12 | I add a few words of my own only because of the difference of opinion between your Lordships on this question and because what I said about the availability of certiorari in my speech in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 has been interpreted to include an error of law by the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 which was not what I had intended . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's been such a pleasure meeting you and do n't forget what I said about the spring . ’ |
| 14 | Occasionally he translated what I said for the benefit of the other two . |
| 15 | I shall not repeat what I said to the Government of India , but it is perfectly fair to say that it was well taken . |
| 16 | Just time for a card — we leave in half an hour — had our last night on the Johnny Walker now it 's local firewater or nothing remember what I said on the phone and do n't have it cut too short . |
| 17 | Years abroad had made me wary of what I said on the telephone . |
| 18 | ‘ I meant what I said on the plane , ’ she reminded him stiffly , even though she knew it was a wasted effort . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then they needed to see what I had in the box . |
| 23 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 24 | ‘ I want Andrew to progress with his own talent rather than on what I achieved in the game . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 28 | Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’ |
| 29 | I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning . |
| 30 | Stooping , what I saw of the valley were glimpses of a richly farmed landscape and a dark brown river , all imbued with a hazy crepuscular Tuscan light . |