Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 2 | Did you hear what I said about the tall fair man , dear ? " |
| 3 | What I said to the other group , partly because they had a , an hour before the lecture is that I 'll use next week with them , as , as an introduction to the poetry of this period . |
| 4 | What I said to the Prime Minister was that he should answer that part of the question to him that was in order . |
| 5 | If there were nothing more to it than this , I would only be repeating what I said in the previous chapter about the persistence of facies . |
| 6 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 7 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 8 | Has someone been telling her what I did to the bald whores ? |
| 9 | ‘ In the second week , I knew what I wanted from the allowed foods , my body told me what I needed . |
| 10 | Luce thought over what she knew about the other woman . |
| 11 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
| 12 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 13 | Still lost in admiration , she filled the kettle , then set about finding what she needed in the numerous cupboards that lined the kitchen walls . |
| 14 | Beatrice was anxious not to follow what she regarded as the purposeless social round of the society wife and felt that the ‘ governing and guiding ’ work performed by women philanthropists was much less likely to ‘ unsex ’ women than academic work or the ‘ push and severity ’ demanded of a professional woman such as the hospital matron . |
| 15 | That 's what you spotted on the Big Dipper . |
| 16 | I 've been thinking about what you said to the Chief Rabbit . |
| 17 | If you relax and allow the images to unfold in your imagination , in nine cases out of ten you will be able to retrace events in your mind and remember what you did with the missing object . |
| 18 | The underground happened everywhere simultaneously : it was simply what you did in the H-bomb world if you were , by nature , creative and concerned for humanity as a whole … |
| 19 | That 's what we said at the general election . |
| 20 | What we said in the introductory session is a lot of this is to do with skills . |
| 21 | Although the presentation of information on the instruments or cathode ray tubes is infinitely better than it was in those old aircraft , the basic type of ‘ director ’ information is little different from what we had on the old zero-reader . |
| 22 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 23 | And by the way , remember what we talked about the other day ? |
| 24 | You 'd have to do what we did on the other page . |
| 25 | But he argues that the benefits were ‘ too small and too short-term for us to know what they meant in the long-term ’ . |
| 26 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 27 | Those who were called upon to defend non-payment of what they owed beyond the promised date were , as they had always been and were to go on being , in the minority . |
| 28 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 29 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 30 | Thus Attoh Ahuma ( who was also known as a clergyman , the Revd S.R.B. Solomon ) joined with another local churchman , the Revd Eggijir Assam , to launch the Gold Coast Aborigine , in which they promised to redress what they saw as the colonial imbalance in the education of local Africans : |