Example sentences of "[conj] what you [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you think , ’ his prosecution pressed him , ‘ that what you were doing , what you were being asked to do or what you had done might be wrong ? ’ |
| 2 | Do n't just count ; tell them how you got to the studio or what you had for breakfast . |
| 3 | What the chicken kiev or what you had ? |
| 4 | You did n't really know what path to take or what you wanted to be |
| 5 | Or what you found about the conversation , but your completion is mainly about the insights of doing this erm , transcription . |
| 6 | Here he could live in virtually complete seclusion , at a fraction of the cost it would take in northern Europe or Canada ; where the people were unconcerned as to who you were or what you did ; and where breathtaking vistas opened up for the seeing — both external and internal . |
| 7 | ‘ But why , ’ he insisted , ‘ should you have supposed that what you saw concerned the unicorn ? ’ |
| 8 | He was noticing everything , the way the light played on a broken brick in the wall opposite and sometimes it looked hollow and sometimes it looked a bulge , which proved that you could n't say that what you saw , however carefully , scientifically , you analysed it , was a scientific fact . |
| 9 | She admitted that , ‘ even though you knew that what you said did n't matter ’ , it was a daunting experience ; in fact ‘ afterwards , counsel apologised for giving me such a hard time ’ . |
| 10 | Files is that what you said ? |
| 11 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 12 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 13 | and he said , this is lower than what you 'd said it was gon na be . |
| 14 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 15 | ‘ What you did to that boat was only marginally less criminal than what you tried to do to me . |
| 16 | Th they 're dearer than what you wanted |
| 17 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 18 | It may take anywhere from two to five or six hours , depending on the wood and the wind and what you had for breakfast and things like that . |
| 19 | And erm anyway they went into all your means , and what you 'd got and what you had n't got , I think my father had to sell his cycle . |
| 20 | ‘ And what you said this morning … about that manuscript I gave you . |
| 21 | Me dad told us all about you , and what you said about Big Norm , Sniffer , Uncle Billy , an' that back in t' seventies . |
| 22 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 23 | And what you said about mortgaging a school , how can a school mortgage it 's school premises if we 've already mortgaged it , with our eighty-five million borrowing , we 've already got half the schools in this county on a mortgage anyway . |
| 24 | And it is here , in the ‘ thinking ’ , we are told , that the programme falls down due to the ‘ lack of connection between reality and what you saw on the screen ( Charles Catchpole , News of the World , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 25 | And what you saw there took your breath away . |
| 26 | Douglas now your background here is mainly erm er retail face to face but I can also read into and what er this and what you told me on the phone that there 's erm quote a lot of sales as well . |
| 27 | And what you got on Tracey on loans ? |
| 28 | And we used to have skittles , and what you 'd got to do , for skittles you got to throw to knock them down , do you see ? |
| 29 | And erm anyway they went into all your means , and what you 'd got and what you had n't got , I think my father had to sell his cycle . |
| 30 | Then , when she began to tell me how it happened , and what you 'd told her , about Gittel and the curse , the scales fell from my eyes . |