Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 She makes my tea with the same water she boils the eggs , she says she do n't but I know better and you know what that does .
2 And I laughed and laughed and laughed and I put it in and you know what happened then .
3 Well , there were these round concrete blocks , with silos at the top , and they used to come in with these loads of scraps , tip it in and you know what we had to do ?
4 I put all the letters in and you told what
5 oh our Linda was the one , you 'd get her settled down and you know what it , if you as much as turned the light switch off
6 And Jim came along and he says what did you say ?
7 The doors were padlocked anyway and I got what I wanted for my purpose from looking at the outside . ’
8 But I 'm getting on and who cares what I think ?
9 and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago .
10 And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out .
11 And people walking on the pavement all it totally and I thought what a cheek .
12 That 's good actually because I saw that from a long way off and I thought what is it ?
13 well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started
14 I did bring it up and no-one knew what it was .
15 Vincent had not tumed up and he wondered what he could possibly say to him when — or if — he did .
16 Just save us coming out so I phoned your dad up and I said what batteries do you need ?
17 She said his son rang up and I said what , what 's his name ?
18 Then Julius Caesar comes up and I knew what he were going to say before he said it . ’
19 So you open it up and you find which is your sterile bit and you put that over the point of the elbow and you can bring that once around and you can ask her to hold it for you , if you like
20 You go to tuck her up and you see what she has .
21 He admired her enormously and she did what he wanted to do — went into the really serious theatre while he stayed the same . ’
22 And she 's tipping the chalk out and she said what 's that , oh that 's the phone , under the table , pulled the rocking horse out .
23 I rang you just now and you did what you do , not speak .
24 William was nervous because he 'd been here before and he knew what was going to happen next , but his father kept smiling at him cheerfully , a strong , reassuring presence by his side .
25 He looked at her sharply and she realized what she 'd said , but met his gaze determined not to go back on the promise to herself .
26 Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to .
27 It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’
28 Well look , I 've got it all in my sort of purse ready you see , and I went off to town today and you know what I bought ?
29 Erm mm I ca n't remember , Alan and Josie 's daughter down the road , erm she passed out as a nurse from Queens a while ago and you know what students are in general , nurses in particular , there was , you would expect , one hell of a party when the exam results were public what came out of the the party was when she got a job as a nurse .
30 ‘ Does it still happen to you , John , that you look back at yourself as you were six months ago and you think what an ignorant , innocent goose you were !
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