Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] i [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
| 2 | I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that did n't concern anybody but myself — that was nobody 's business but my own . |
| 3 | ‘ How does Harvey know what I said to General Midwinter ? ’ she asked me as she passed . |
| 4 | when they today she 's , you could see she was miles away , so I said , well I do n't know what I said to Ivan , I said something to her about sort of did you |
| 5 | I forget what I said to them but the they forgot , the next , I do n't think I got a bit of grub ever , since then . |
| 6 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 7 | I also found what I took to be a sporting pistol , with a beautifully engraved silver stock . |
| 8 | ‘ I adopted what I conceived to be a classless accent , ’ he said , ‘ as that is what I thought Byron ought to be and that is what I am . |
| 9 | I had said what I had to and listened long enough . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway ! ’ exclaimed Laura , coming to her feet , ‘ I suppose I 've said what I wanted to . |
| 11 | Let me repeat what I said to Marketing Week ; that no woman needs a special washing substance for her vulva . |
| 12 | I shall not repeat what I said to the Government of India , but it is perfectly fair to say that it was well taken . |
| 13 | I could then do whatever I wanted to . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't remember what I said to the girls , but it was certainly not ‘ Catch a butterfly ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One might be doing what can also be done by whispering ‘ Do not believe what I said to George ’ ; the other might have winked to say ‘ We are being watched ’ . |
| 17 | In a speech at Leicester last Friday I stated what I took to be a constitutional axiom : ‘ All the public utterances of the sovereign , ’ I said , ‘ are covered by the advice of ministers . ’ |
| 18 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 19 | A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver . |
| 20 | Just remember what I did to Master Hwa that time in the Pit . |
| 21 | I could n't get round to saying what I wanted to . |
| 22 | Yet I still believe what I said to Martinho , as he cocked his blind head towards me before talking of the hand of God : there 's always someone else who 'll step forward . |
| 23 | Alfred did not seem to understand what I said to him . |
| 24 | Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine . |
| 25 | I do n't need to tell you to keep what I said to yourself , of course . ’ |
| 26 | Simultaneously the Mercure de France published in its October issues the letters of-Cézanne to Emile Bernard , including the letter which contains the passage : ‘ Allow me to repeat what I said to you here : deal with nature in terms of the cylinder , the sphere , the cone , all seen in perspective , so that each side of an object or plane is directed towards a central point . |
| 27 | One young refugee remembers : ‘ When asked what I wanted to be I said a doctor . |
| 28 | I did what I had to . |
| 29 | ( Interestingly enough , I could n't get what I considered to be a good cup of coffee when I was in the States , so perhaps it 's a dying art … |
| 30 | Almost immediately , the birds in the angsana responded by flying out in a flock , showing what I took to be anxiety by sinking to the ground and then rapidly rising again . |