Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I did what I could to try to conceive a girl , I could n't be sure that I had . |
| 2 | Immediately I regretted what I had said . |
| 3 | I 'd used dikes , DFs and things like that before , so I knew what I was getting into . |
| 4 | ‘ I had worked in recruitment so I knew what I was in for : it can be a nightmare . ’ |
| 5 | An unusual bird flew past , so I asked what it was — and an inner voice told me . |
| 6 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 7 | On the way to the station we heard a kerbstone musician playing the concertina , and Eliot , struck by the tune , asked me if I knew what it was . |
| 8 | Since they had n't spotted me earlier , there was no embarrassment attached to my circuitous ramble and I hailed them with a tone of voice that sounded as if I knew what I was doing . |
| 9 | ‘ League is a fabulous game but I 've never liked it and if I knew what I know now , I would never have left Pontypool . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd be able to contribute something if I knew what you were talking about . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If I knew what he wanted , I might be able to tell you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Harriet , if I got what you get a year , I 'd invest it to … support the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or something . |
| 13 | But the next best thing is for more money towards fourteen to nineteen education so that 's very welcome at least and was widely supported in the various versions we saw this morning , my concern is with the way in which this money is to got from the centre to the school and I 'd like to speak very strongly in favour of what if I got what you 're is education so that we aim to assist schools to build on their own interests and and not have it parcelled out by some central authority which is and which a sigh of this is an area of great relevance to schools |
| 14 | Downs said : ‘ If I said what I really thought about the ref , they would lock me up and throw away the key . ’ |
| 15 | If I had what they have , I would consider myself in heaven . ’ |
| 16 | People have this perception , ‘ Man , if I had what you had , I 'd be happy . ’ |
| 17 | I wrote in great haste and under some excitement , from the statements to which I referred , [ Palmerston 's remarks ] and plead this as my excuse if I expressed what I did not really intend . |
| 18 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 19 | I thought what 's that digging in until I realized what it was |
| 20 | I began to alter my standards of hospitality , offering them my pale , cold face when their music grew louder , when they began laughing among themselves and did n't take the trouble to explain their jokes to me as they had before , or repeat their words until I understood what they were saying . |
| 21 | cos I thought what you talk about is such a load of bollocks and he looked at me madly , and I thought oh how funny , I thought . |
| 22 | I just hope that you issued him with that warning because I meant what I said — I 'll ruin him if he hurts her again . ’ |
| 23 | I found that sentence easier because I knew what I was getting into . |
| 24 | ‘ I came because I liked what I saw when you passed me in the corridor back in Helsinki . |
| 25 | Secondly , while I heard what he said about the fact that , in the case of Mr. Thorpe , the process in north Devon was not exhausted , the theoretical position remains that the treatment may not have been available in north Devon , but was made available in London by virtue of the fact that Mr. Thorpe had two residences and was registered in two places . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I was happy about my time but I have to admit that I walked the last two or three miles after I hit what they call ‘ the wall ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Madame Gebrec , I know I said I would help you , but that was before I understood what you wanted of me . |
| 28 | Before I knew what I desired , the desire itself was gone , the whole glimpse withdrawn , the world turned commonplace again , or only stirred by a longing that had just ceased . |
| 29 | Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists . |
| 30 | And that was the day after ( heart going bang-the-big-bass-drum 'cos I knew what they 'd say ) I tried to get a word in edgeways when they finally fixed my GCSE options . |