Example sentences of "[adv] what [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can break it down further , you can add in things here about what somebody wanted , okay , what somebody was trying to get hold of , what they wanted , and also perhaps what they wanted to avoid . |
| 2 | Basically what I wanted to do , was to write a love story with the question could one honour the expression of the beloved , the language of the other , in the same way one could honour the expression of one 's own . |
| 3 | Mr Stanforth was not entirely what she had expected , but neither , she deduced from the covert glances he was using upon her like measuring instruments , was she quite matching up to his preconceived picture of her . |
| 4 | And you could n't really see much what we 'd got , could you Geoff ? |
| 5 | It was n't so much what he had done , though it was the very last thing she had expected , it was the way it had felt , like a high-voltage jolt of electricity . |
| 6 | ‘ And how very much what I had hoped people would feel . ’ |
| 7 | They had to read out of books , then write out what they had read , then read aloud what they had written . |
| 8 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 9 | So what they decided to do , they would accept the clinical grading appeals which says that a panel can be up to six members , of three members of management and three members of trade unions . |
| 10 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 11 | Erm , so what we wanted to do was , we 've had we 're doing quite well with the ov , erm , the five weeks we 've been together but we wan na make sure that you do combat erm a successful pact . |
| 12 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 13 | That the gulf existed was something she had known all along , so what she had overheard and the realisation it brought with it should n't be causing tears to prick behind her eyes as she opened the cupboard in the study that adjoined Faye and Bill 's bedroom , and got out the testing kit she had come for . |
| 14 | So what you got to do ? |
| 15 | Well the Solicitors turned round and said to him that there 's a twenty five per cent chance he 'll lose his licence , but then he 'll get there erm , but most he 'll probably get is about a month , and then he said , well surely your job could find you something to do in that time , has said , no licence , no job , so what he had to do was to . |
| 16 | So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom . |
| 17 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 18 | So I came back er with a trust fund so what I 'd done , Golf Course were having troubles , right , Golf Course . |
| 19 | So what I had to do |
| 20 | So what I thought to do , if Jill phones tomorrow morning |
| 21 | Erm , so what I promised to do in er er , a moment or two if people are to ask specific questions or comments to make arising from either of those printed reports on page six and page twenty erm , if you would make your point or ask your question now er , it will be recorded and transmitted to the officers responsible and they will take any necessary action or give any reverent replies to those questions . |
| 22 | The directors of these films , tourists in working-class cultures for which they felt little sympathy , saw only what they wanted to see . |
| 23 | Vested interests in Germany saw only what they wanted to see : namely that the Junkers were the traditional political and military leaders of German society , that they had brought about German unification and that this would make Germany into an industrial power of the first order . |
| 24 | If only what we 'd done had given proof |
| 25 | Doreen , Lucy realised , was an expert self-deluder , who believed only what she wished to believe . |
| 26 | He was diffident , seemingly vague , declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching , and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter . |
| 27 | These letters are particularly valuable to us because Pliny was clearly aware of the need to describe objectively what he had experienced , and to resist the temptation to exaggerate . |
| 28 | And those six little gutter-weasels and their heftier accomplice who had pushed her over would never realize , when they sold Miss Gemma Dallam 's valuable satin for a shilling or two , just what they had done to her . |
| 29 | The voters would recognise just what they had thrown away by their mad urge to vote Labour or Liberal Democrat in April 1992 — and this , plus the sight of Mr Gerald Kaufman as Foreign Secretary , would be quite enough to do the trick . |
| 30 | And that was just what they wanted to hear . |