Example sentences of "[coord] what [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have said we are a new newsletter team and feel we could print a newsletter containing what we wanted or what we thought ought to be there . |
| 2 | No ball games or what we called drill which was erm P T you call it now . |
| 3 | Egg and bacon on each plate but one and on this one a dried up , curled-up-with-age piece of smoked fillet , or what we called finney haddock . |
| 4 | And I 've no idea what they came for or what they took . ’ |
| 5 | Terrified of making the slightest slip — Kinnock and the rest played safe — or what they thought was safe . |
| 6 | It 's I do n't know what it was , er they hardly , we were having a discussion with the doctor , erm none of them would put forward their opinions or their views or what they thought |
| 7 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 8 | ‘ We still have this idea that if we do something morally wrong , or what They said was wrong , there 'll be some kind of Divine Retribution , ’ said William . |
| 9 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 10 | He asked no questions about Druid 's Bottom , about what they had done , or what they had seen . |
| 11 | Neither Nehru nor Jinnah gained all that they wanted ( or what they had announced as their objectives ) but Aung San and Thakin Nu did obtain all their demands , despite British objections . |
| 12 | The people in his past had been real once but , although that was a very long time ago , he had never been able to forget them or what they had done to his life . |
| 13 | What he and his colleagues were aiming at was not democracy , popular government , but limited government , or what they termed a " republic " or a " representative republic " . |
| 14 | However , in the search for origins employing such a term as Welfare State may obscure a real understanding of what the individuals at the time intended or what they created . |
| 15 | Would it be out of order to ask what they do get paid , or what they did get paid ? |
| 16 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 17 | Yes , but we decided that we would ask them what , they could offer us first , or what they wanted , that is . |
| 18 | Quite suddenly whether Anne worried or what she thought were not of the least importance . |
| 19 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 20 | Ratings were made by a team of researchers with no knowledge of whether or not the woman was a case , or what she had said about her response to the event . |
| 21 | And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ? |
| 22 | Or what she planned to do about it when she found out . |
| 23 | She did n't care where she went or what she saw as long as he was pleased and she was with him . |
| 24 | I do n't know where she went or what she did , but at night she was always there , curled up on the rattan chaise-longue , looking at me . |
| 25 | She had no idea , until then , why she was acting as she was , or what she suspected , or why , indeed , she should suspect anything but a straight pick-up , and one so simply and attractively engineered as to be quite unalarming ; a normal minor wolf on the prowl , with a long weekend to while away , and an eye cocked for congenial company , preferably intimate , but in any case gratifying . |
| 26 | What DeFries said to David or what he felt I do n't know , but what he said was , ‘ Well , if that 's what he wants , then he should leave ’ . |
| 27 | Elsewhere Jesus avoids such claims , and in the story of the temptation Jesus resisted the idea of using miracles to prove who he was , or what he had come to do . |
| 28 | Or what he had become . |
| 29 | The intent can best be proved by an admission from the accused or what he said to the female to whom he exposed himself . |
| 30 | I went to my doctor and ca n't remember what I said to him or what he said to me , but he put me on valium . |