Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] exactly what " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 2 | thank you , well you know the three categories , now what about erm , er , I 'm very anxious to proceed today as far as we can , what about Mr er remind me erm reading with two and three er I 'm afraid I 've forgotten exactly what you , oh I know you wanted to know Mr , er before cross examine Mr you want to know about all the additions of the various brochures , is that right ? |
| 3 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 4 | Chairman there were three areas of concern , the longer term objective were of course the bypass , that is some way into the future , the more the media is , that is concerned with traffic calming the more comprehensive traffic calming would be the subject of some in depth study who 'd defined exactly what pieces of , of traffic are most suitable for that village , but one element and that was to do with |
| 5 | It crossed Luce 's mind that , though he might be thwarted sexually , he sounded like a man who had got exactly what he wanted . |
| 6 | It was another miracle that it was so near the hospital , and that the driver of the car , who had been able to step out of it without any aid , had in fact been a Fitzwilliam Square doctor himself , who had known exactly what to do . |
| 7 | ‘ No , you have to repeat exactly what I say , ’ insisted Charles . |
| 8 | ‘ No , you have to repeat exactly what I say , ’ repeated Julian , who was catching on . |
| 9 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 10 | When you have decided exactly what work needs to be done , you should obtain several quotations for the job . |
| 11 | Madam Speaker there are a number of points in that supplementary question , let me deal first of all with on G C H Q we 've done exactly what the I L O requested us to do , we 've had er discussions with the civil service unions to see if a solution could be found . |
| 12 | We have done exactly what I wanted us to do — brought a great singer back into the difficult world of the performer . |
| 13 | We have to see exactly what he is doing by himself , and what he learns by himself — not what you teach him , do you understand ? ’ |
| 14 | But if we are going to meet expectations of clients then really we have to know exactly what it is the client needs and would be happy with . |
| 15 | If they 'd done exactly what she asked , she 'd have outmanoeuvred Maurice completely , as she assumed she would . |
| 16 | At that time I did n't pause to wonder if he 'd realized exactly what he 'd taken on when he first became involved with Nigel 's funeral arrangements ; I did later , and often , with deep and loving gratitude . |
| 17 | He 'd known exactly what he was doing all along . |
| 18 | Worried by their absence , it was only when he had contacted the superintendent of the building — who seemed to know everything that happened in the neighbourhood — that he 'd learned exactly what had happened to Laura and the twins . |
| 19 | The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off . |
| 20 | The barn where it was held was owned by a local farmer , John Ellis , and if Kate knew anything about it , he had known exactly what was going on . |
| 21 | Before he had entered Yuan 's quarters , he had known exactly what he was going to say . |