Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A muffled moon could be glimpsed through its broken deck , a pier long closed to those who once sought to find out what it was the butler saw . |
| 2 | It also sought to tighten up what it required of doctors who received the basic NHS practice allowance for the upkeep of their premises . |
| 3 | Casting her mind back , she tried to work out what it was , piecing together what she knew of him . |
| 4 | The three glossed signs from transcript 1 ( KNOCKED , CAME , WHAT ? ) represent three propositions with the meaning that someone knocked at the door , the person inside came and tried to find out what it was . |
| 5 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 6 | In the car , on their way to Holywood at past two in the morning , Karen rested in the crook of Mallachy 's arm and shoulder and tried to sort out what she felt . |
| 7 | I tried to play back what we 'd been saying . |
| 8 | If we stopped to check out what we really wanted to do , our internal voices might not be saying , ‘ Time to go out clubbing , ’ but , ‘ Out with the Ovaltine , on with the duvet and open the Ruth Rendell . ’ |
| 9 | And for a moment Lisa was suddenly so overcome by the confusion of responses that went rushing through her that she almost failed to pick up what he said next . |
| 10 | Elaine seemed to know instinctively what she was thinking . |
| 11 | " They seemed to know exactly what they wanted . " |
| 12 | If they 'd done exactly what she asked , she 'd have outmanoeuvred Maurice completely , as she assumed she would . |
| 13 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 14 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 15 | He 'd known exactly what he was doing all along . |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |
| 17 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
| 18 | And in his own character he 'd found out what he wanted to know . |
| 19 | He seemed to grasp immediately what she was talking about . |
| 20 | mm I be , oh you ai n't rubbed out , I thought you 'd rubbed out what you did yesterday |
| 21 | Now if we can go back to the period when the eighty odd agreements was developed into one national agreement , it seemed to break up what we would term a big happy family . |
| 22 | Something important was eluding her , and until she 'd worked out what it was she did n't want to demand an explanation from him . |
| 23 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
| 24 | The witness judged part of the secret to lie in the way he seemed to think out what he wanted to say as he went along and made the audience share his struggle after truth . |
| 25 | At that time I did n't pause to wonder if he 'd realized exactly what he 'd taken on when he first became involved with Nigel 's funeral arrangements ; I did later , and often , with deep and loving gratitude . |
| 26 | A chill passed through me then and my mind raced to reason out what I was seeing . |
| 27 | As Creggan and Kraal continued to tell their dearest memories , night began to fall and Minch began to plan out what she would do in the limited time she felt she had left to her . |
| 28 | But then I began to wonder just what I was going to write . |
| 29 | She began to piece together what it was that Clare did . |
| 30 | Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) . |