Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [Wh det] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you mind if I asked what 's for supper , only I 'm starvin' . ’ |
| 2 | I delivered what was to be my longest speech of the evening , saying that I gathered he was keen to talk about his role , to talk about Gary . |
| 3 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 4 | So I said what 's in it for . |
| 5 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 6 | As I wondered what was on his mind another shape appeared ahead , followed by another . |
| 7 | I wondered what was on the other side of the far wall , for there was a green door in its centre . |
| 8 | Indirectly , she revealed what was in her mind — and mine — by saying , ‘ You know why we must return to England so soon after finding this peaceful sanctuary ? |
| 9 | I do n't quite know how to put this but but er she found what was in the village news offensive . |
| 10 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 11 | Almost as if you understood what was in my mind when I designed them . ’ |
| 12 | Until she knew what was in the old man 's will she and Cathy seem to have been matey enough . |
| 13 | For as she pressed back against the front door , trembling and bewildered , she saw what was in substance her own house . |
| 14 | It was in Lucerne that you conducted what were by all accounts electrifying performances of the Honegger Symphonie liturgique , which you later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon . |
| 15 | The following afternoon , as she approached the laundry , she wondered what was in store ; and dread , mixed with more than a grain of excitement , gnawed at her innards . |
| 16 | She wondered what was in it , and who it was from . |
| 17 | But we got , we got what was on our list . |
| 18 | We knew what were in there before you even opened your hand up ! |
| 19 | We knew what were in there ! |
| 20 | Try as we might to tell ourselves that it 's ‘ what 's on the inside that counts ’ , we have very little evidence to show that it 's true , and inside and outside can become confused , so that we feel bad on the inside but believe that if we altered what 's on the outside ( our bodies ) we could change how we feel . |
| 21 | For several weeks that fear remained at the back of our minds and we wondered what was behind the brief news bulletins which were issued , and whether the whole fateful adventure would be a success . |
| 22 | They ate what was in front of them . |
| 23 | erm , there 's on certain parts of ah what they put has shown they they 've understood what was in that part of the diary like in the exercises relating this morning to or to learning like with the Roman numerals and the other thing they shown that they understood what was in that context , but then on erm when you get later on it 's just er |
| 24 | Naturally they took what was on offer , and no doubt thoroughly enjoyed the experience — just as a later Scottish politician , James VI , did when he collected £58,000 in pensions from the notoriously parsimonious Elizabeth , without feeling any need to deviate from the path which suited him and his kingdom , and without being regarded as particularly unprincipled . |
| 25 | ‘ They were hungry men , ’ he said , ‘ and they wanted what was in my sack . ’ |
| 26 | In 1851 he used what were in effect vectors in deriving magnetic equations without using Poisson 's theory of magnetic fluid . |
| 27 | The Act empowered the Secretary of State to put a limit on the amount if in his opinion the amount proposed to be raised was ‘ excessive ’ according to principles he determined which were to be the same for all authorities falling within the same class . |
| 28 | In about 1823 he began what was to be his principal life 's work , the translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Persian . |
| 29 | Slowly he finished what was in his mouth , his eyes roaming the plate . |
| 30 | It decided what was to be debated , for how long and when the final vote was to be taken , so that the government could plan its legislative programme and could forecast accurately when each legislative train would reach the various stages on the journey to enactment . |