Example sentences of "[pron] what [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I what I thought was , well let's have erm , Woodrow Wilson , okay , as you said at the beginning of the book , Freud admits that he did n't like Wilson , and that he felt betrayed by Wilson , like a lot of people in Central Europe did I suppose , because you know , Wilson came over erm , with fourteen points as the saviour of the world , and went away leaving with a piece of . |
| 2 | And so I what I said was , as part of their community service , we would then earmark the various small erm children 's homes , old people 's homes and they would go as a team of electricians , fitters , craftsmen and do a community work . |
| 3 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 4 | So what you do is you what I wanted is , I , you know you know how if your mother 's gon na recover a sofa it 's it is you know , I I er I recover them . |
| 5 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 6 | When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears . |
| 7 | Later that day , when she asked him what it had been used for , he confessed : ‘ Sorry , Mum , I got it wrong . |
| 8 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 9 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 10 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 11 | Pulling herself together with an effort , she gave him what she hoped was a cool look . |
| 12 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
| 13 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 14 | For two days I was n't allowed on the show , and they What they said was there was too many other people on before hand . |
| 15 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 16 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 17 | No what he what he did is and he |
| 18 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 19 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 20 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 21 | In one store the manager tried to sell me what I thought was obsolete software . |
| 22 | And you never asked me what I had been doing . |
| 23 | He was so forceful and dogmatic in his ideas that the Girls would be embarrassed at band calls when he interrupted acts , totally unknown to him , to tell them what he thought was wrong . |